Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Are you a prescriptivist or descriptivist?
I will say that I am 70% descriptivist and 30% prescriptivist. I accept the use of those new words and sentence structures, but not to the point where I want to suddenly see all the neologism in the dictionaries (especially if they are only used online) or all the different sentence structures being accepted at once. For me, it's fine to use it for everyday chat, but once it goes into the dictionary and people start using it in like papers and reports, it will really feel like the language is going in the wrong direction. I mean imagine the FBI or whatever powerful government agency using those new words (without using quotation marks) in their official reports.
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