It is endlessly amusing, to me, how worked up perfectly sane people will get over certain monosyllables. Why should a certain combination of sounds be considered offensive? The
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Linguistics Pro Tip #1: How to deal with extreme prescriptivists
If you spend long enough in a liberal arts environment or anywhere language is studied, you’ll certainly run into a few extreme prescriptivists. The basic prescriptivist mindset runs
David Foster Wallace, Demolishing Descriptivism
“Take, for example, the Descriptivism claim that so-called correct English usages such as brought rather than brung and felt rather than feeled are arbitrary and restrictive and unfair
