Even the Elements of Style evolved from 1919 to 2009, so it’s unreasonable to expect English to stay frozen in time. That does not mean that it’s a total free-for-all, though, as long as the reader expects to read the same English they understand. #prescriptivism #descriptivism
Image of angry old teacher with pointed ears looking over her left shoulder at the camera. Text on top and bottom reads "Grammar, the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the USS Linguistic Prescriptivism. / Its ongoing mission: to diagram strange new sentences; to seek out split infinitives and Oxford commas; to correct boldly what no grammarian has corrected before!"
Would you board the USS Linguistic Prescriptivism?
Grammar, the Final Frontier.
#startrek #meme #humor #grammar #prescriptivism #linguistics
My new linguistic pet peeve is people using "larping" when the role playing in question is not at all live action. People keep talking about others "larping" on the internet. If it's on the internet it's not live action! You can say demonstrations are larping. Posting is not larping. #prescriptivism
My second post will be public in 18 more hours. #LGBT #Prescriptivism #Linguistics
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Präskriptive Linguistik im Supermarkt?
„Dass sich Konsumenten nicht bevormunden lassen, zeige das Beispiel Hafermilch: Von der EU gesetzlich zum Drink gemacht, blieb sie im Alltag fest als Milch verankert.“ […]
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/good-2
I mean, linguists are scientists. Obviously they are going to take a descriptive approach to what they study. That doesn't mean normal people have to.
#linguistics #prescriptivism
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#Korean #transliteration #prescriptivism
2025 goal: be OK with putting commas inside quoted phrases instead of outside.
This is hard for me because a quote feels like a commitment to honour the source material, so inserting punctuation feels like I'm sullying it.
#Writing #Prescriptivism
Video recording of the #ISLE Expert Forum on "Normative Linguistics, Twenty-five Years on" with Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Morana Lukač & Linda Pillière now available at
youtu.be/-ttj95vEAVg
#InternationalSocietyForTheLinguisticsOfEnglish #Linguistics #Prescriptivism
Starting in less than two hours: #ISLE Expert Forum on "Normative Linguistics, Twenty-five Years on" with Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Morana Lukač & Linda Pillière! Zoom link available at www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/o...
#Linguistics #NormativeLinguistics #prescriptivism
How grammar is taught in school (or how Strunk & White teach style): http://specgram.com/CLXXVI.1/04.marino.grammar.html #specgram #prescriptivism
