Re:Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite
by psychoslave on Monday December 30, 2024 @03:05PM
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Are you trying to subtly prescribe that descriptivism is better than prescriptivism? :)
Re:Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite
by cryptonector on Monday December 30, 2024 @03:12PM
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A bit, yeah :)
In speech I clarify if and when needed, naturally.
> Your idea is like saying "Google" can be a trademark owned by Alphabet but "google" is just a verb. It seems like a cute linguistic hack but won't be meaningful in the public discourse.
You have it exactly backwards. Descriptively "to google" is a verb.
Descriptivism is much better than prescriptivism in natural language. Sure, we need to use prescriptivism when teaching the language, but we do get to evolve the language. That's just how it goes and has gone for the entire recorded history of mankind.