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		antonvs 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Try and When prescriptivism is balking at usages that have been continuously in effect for four centuries, the problem is not with the usage. The prescriptivism you're using is suspect.

NuclearPM 6 months ago | [–]

Prescriptivism is good. I could care less.

antonvs 5 months ago | | [–]

Haha I love it. Yiddish constructions ftw.

llbbdd 6 months ago | | [–]

Prescriptivism is silly anyway, you'd be better off counting sand.

nyeah 6 months ago | [–]

Yeah. Prescriptivism may have a worthwhile role to play. But it needs to be a lot more thought out than "what some authority wrote 75 years ago".

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