Re:Poll: "Giff" or "Jif"?
by dietrichepp on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @09:08AM
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Most linguists would agree that it is logically contradictory to state that the majority of speakers pronounce a word incorrectly, because the correct pronunciation is determined by observing how people actually say a word, and not how one very special person thinks other people should pronounce it.
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Isn't prescriptivism vs. descriptivism actually a very old divide among linguists?
Re:Poll: "Giff" or "Jif"?
by dietrichepp on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @05:04PM
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It is a very old divide, and the descriptivists won a very long time ago. I'm sure there are prescriptivist linguists around somewhere but I haven't met them.