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<Why should you care about prescriptivists?>
You think they have no power?
"See you" could mean "Julio and I will see you down by the schoolyard".
AlpheccaStars“Anonymous“ Fine? Even for the prescriptivists? How so?”Prescriptivists today are sailing against the gales of mediocrity, adrift in the vast oceans of literary ignorance, besieged by the vicious onslaughts of rap, dialect, and urbandictionary.”
Anonymous“ Fine? Even for the prescriptivists? How so?”
Fine? Even for the prescriptivists? How so?
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Prescriptivists today are sailing against the gales of mediocrity, adrift in the vast oceans of literary ignorance, besieged by the vicious onslaughts of rap, dialect, and urbandictionary.
Funny short film!
"(... )is just the same junk everyone says on the internet to show their linguistic superiority — complaining that the so-called “educated” amongst us are actually uneducated, blaming the ills of modern language usage on “the drone of mass media”, all that jazz. The whole point of the post is that the rabble is destroying the language by replacing adverbs with adjectives. The post drips with disdain for those dips whose slovenly usage is slowly leaching our precious adverbs from our precious language."
http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/wont-someone-please-think-of-the-adverbs/
Anonymous“ <Why should you care about prescriptivists?> You think they have no power?”
Power over you, maybe, since you are always so scared. All the others can just forget about them.
Alphecca, haha, that was funny.
Tell your kids that when they fail their next English exam.
"We put together a Bad Grammar Hall of Fame Playlist, full of songs we love despite their bad grammar. You'll find it at the bottom of this page."
http://nationalgrammarday.com/
"There was an urgency surrounding the notion of a standard language, in the eighteenth century. People needed to know who they were talking to. Snap judgments were everything, when it came to social position. And things are not much different today. We make immediate judgments based on how people dress, how they do their hair, decorate their bodies--and how they speak and write. It is the first bit of discourse that counts. . . ."
http://grammar.about.com/od/pq/g/prescgramterm.htm
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