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A related post of mine, on language reform and prescriptivism:
"By oversimplifying the nature and aims of prescriptivism, we invite confusion, category errors, and semantic muddles"
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2021/07/25/four-types-of-language-prescriptivism/
Wishing English were more like Latin is like wishing your partner were more like your ex
Is this an email from Amazon offering to sell me a platform from which I can observe fraudsters? Or is it telling me I should look out (which normally has a space) for them?
(It's a real email.)
So many things wrong with this…To start with, why do people associate longer, latin-related words with more ‘formal’ when it is just ‘longer’? Second…what’s with the bellies…and the belly rubbing? @linguisticsmemes #linguistics #prescriptivism #Ignoranceofscience @linguistics
God help me if I ever have to interview with a company that invents stupid words.
"we are a Series A startup building the 'operating system for rentalpreneurs'"
Just say you are building management software for small landlords. Gah!
#Introduction (since I am still new here): I am a linguist at Freie Universität Berlin, working on #Dutch and other #Westgermanic languages (#German, #English, #Afrikaans, #Plattdeutsch etc.). My focus is on #morphology and #LanguageChange, mostly from a #contrastive perspective. Also interested in #sociolinguistics and the relationship between language and society. #StandardLanguageIdeology and #prescriptivism are central topics in our #Graduiertenkolleg on #normativity at #FUBerlin.
Alright here's my rant about #prescriptivism, you asked for it
A pet peeve of mine is people misunderstanding what literal and figurative speech even are
When people complain that "'literally' is used to mean 'figuratively'", they are belying that their theory of communication is overly reductive to the point of being demonstrably false
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