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minus-squarePanini@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down7·2 months agoIf you’re speaking it natively and correctly to your own understanding, you’re not speaking it wrong, or unable to speak it. That assertion is asinine on its face. Languages change.
minus-squareDigit@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoNot all change of language is good. Read 1984 again if forgot why.
minus-squarePanini@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·2 months ago Read 1984 again if forgot why. lol, there’s layers of irony in this line
minus-squaregwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·edit-22 months agoAh, you mean the book about a prescriptivist policy of grammar coming top-down from government, that one? And how the way that people rebelled was intentionally misuse of the rules in a “you didn’t say I couldn’t use it this way!”, a form of descriptivism Read 1984, if forget why
If you’re speaking it natively and correctly to your own understanding, you’re not speaking it wrong, or unable to speak it. That assertion is asinine on its face. Languages change.
Not all change of language is good.
Read 1984 again if forgot why.
lol, there’s layers of irony in this line
Ah, you mean the book about a prescriptivist policy of grammar coming top-down from government, that one?
And how the way that people rebelled was intentionally misuse of the rules in a “you didn’t say I couldn’t use it this way!”, a form of descriptivism
Read 1984, if forget why