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minus-squarepyre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 months agothey make terrible linguists too.
minus-squareComment105@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 months agoThey don’t. Language requires intelligent design from intelligent people sometimes. When needed, prescriptivists in legion can make a literate civilization out of illiterate primitives. The asinine and the arcane can both make learning unnecessarily difficult.
minus-squareprzemek@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoPrescriptivism is good for language learning, but not for linguistics
they make terrible linguists too.
They don’t.
Language requires intelligent design from intelligent people sometimes. When needed, prescriptivists in legion can make a literate civilization out of illiterate primitives.
The asinine and the arcane can both make learning unnecessarily difficult.
Prescriptivism is good for language learning, but not for linguistics