• Comment105@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 months ago

      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.

      • przemek@lemm.eeEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Prescriptivism is good for language learning, but not for linguistics