#fuck prescriptivism

[linguisten]

And I will judge *you* for gratuitously tagging that drivel with the #linguistics tag.

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weırd st*rs

can i repeat what i think in the dark?

may i repeat it in ink or in art?

i dotted my t's and i crossed out my heart

stuck a pin in my i

(well, i guess that's a start)

when a baby first cried, did his father still scold?

when a person first lied, were they sheepish or bold?

i have tried and i've tried to speak careful and cold

but until the spark dies

there's still charcoal to hold

i solemnly swear not to stutter or spit

or to slur words or curse or to speak with a lisp

i will sign on the line in an elegant script

with my dominant hand

resting on my left hip

i before e (see me after class)

i split my infinitive soul in two halves

said "to be who you are" just stay right where you're at

your middle name's stars***

***and let's keep it like that

[painsandconfusion]

hey, just so you know, as someone who is diagnosrd insomnia (currently going on like an hour and a hf of sleep) and is majoring in an English related field, I personally found your post validating so maybe that anons just on one or found it insulting in a way that I didnt. but I found it validating. especially since idk I feel like we all go through it together in some sense lmao idk maybe just me tho

thats really really good to hear, thank you

im glad it was good for you

i just used to think i was lazy all the time for fucking things up and after a while i just stopped caring. its the ideas that matter, not the rules of the language that convey it

[earhartsease]

Tfw you waste 20 minutes trying to track down a post in the wrong linguistics group that you want to add a pun to.

But anyway, "Broken English by Grammarianne Faithfull", if anyone cares

[donuteater13]

Anyone who says a hot dog is is a sandwich is a grammatical prescriptivist, I don't make the rules.

[owlbear33]

gawd i fucking hate prescriptivist bollocks, should we all revert back to Proto-Indo-European should we, or do you have a different language in mind, for fucks sake!!!