• Default_Defect@midwest.social
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    2 years ago

    Yeah, but loose instead of lose and too in place of to is annoying. As well as using apostrophe’s on word’s that end in S’s that aren’t possessive.

    • Comment105@lemm.ee
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      2 years 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.ee
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        11 months ago

        Prescriptivism is good for language learning, but not for linguistics

      • Reddfugee42@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        I knew after the first FOUR WORDS of your comment that you don’t know what you’re talking about. Language literally evolves organically, constantly.