• lugal@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    A true descriptivist will describe the effects, prescriptivism has on language #toleranceparadox

    But your right, it isn’t linguistics since science is always descriptive.

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      1 year ago

      A true descriptivist will describe the effects, prescriptivism has on language #toleranceparadox

      Naturally. One can’t describe any real language without that, even something as “pure” as Icelandic.