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Re:Poll: "Giff" or "Jif"? by brazzy on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @09:53AM (#5750802)
Isn't prescriptivism vs. descriptivism actually a very old divide among linguists?
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Re:Poll: "Giff" or "Jif"? by dietrichepp on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @05:04PM (#5753698)
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.
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