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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-up1·1 month agoPrescriptivism is good for language learning, but not for linguistics
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