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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

they make terrible linguists too.

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 points 5 months ago

Prescriptivism is good for language learning, but not for linguistics