8/ "If you're [ doing a thing that you're not doing ] you're incorrect" that may very well be truehttps://twitter.com/wx_underground/status/1419735071293001738 …
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9/ Sure, language is always changing. That does not, however, mean that you were correct when you said that I was incorrect. You were wrong. I've presented evidence to support my usage, you have not presented evidence to support yours.https://twitter.com/wx_underground/status/1419735452366491650 …
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Dan Holley @wx_undergroundReplying to @MorlockP5 Precepts of the English Language (1952): Language is always changing Change is normal The spoken language is the language Correctness rests upon usage All usage is relative The way that you're using the terms, in this specific, usage-relevant case, is wrong.3 replies 0 retweets 19 likesShow this thread -
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Replying to @NoLongerBennett @MorlockP
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/-al This is what happens when people learn English in a school and not intuitively by the age of 3.
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Replying to @NoLongerBennett @novummed
My suggestion is that "norm" has a connotation (not a crisp definition, mind) of "descended from authority" (even that of the crowd), while "normal" has a connotation of "emergent". Men being 5'10" is normal. Washing your hands is a norm. The sign saying "wash hands" = normative
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Replying to @NoLongerBennett @novummed
I assume the latter, but I'd want to check the dictionary before having an Opinion
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yeah, this is one pattern I see a lot in debates about definitions: when there are MULTIPLE valid definitions, and person A is sure that the word X means definition Y (and is correct!) and then lectures person B not to use it to mean definition Z (...which it also means)
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