imagine telling an immigrant journalist that his diction is wrong and pretentious and he should take instruction from academics.
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Sure, I shouldn't have cited Pinker. It's a lucid account of the descriptionist argument but I accept its dated. In any case, my core argument is not a linguistic one but a journalistic one -- that usage on twitter shouldn't be narrowly academic.
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