i love watching the evolution of language, which you can often do in realtime, bc things that are obviously good ideas appear and then get virally adopted in our modern hyperconnected world https://twitter.com/ohtumblroh/status/980153002752401409 …
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Replying to @CTZN5
prescriptivists are missing out on a joyful process IMO :)
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Replying to @sonyaellenmann
i'm only a prescriptivist when there's a situation where firm rules are required to prevent a linguisting PEMDAS situation. so, oxford commas, and putting parsing punctuation (commas, periods, semicolons, etc) outside of partitioning punctuation (brackets, quotation marks, etc)
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Replying to @CTZN5 @sonyaellenmann
usually this sorts itself out but as seen with the oxford comma debate, it's not obvious enough so it's useful to make your stance known
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Replying to @CTZN5 @sonyaellenmann
(and the latter example hasn't even been "won" yet, though afaict we're winning)
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Replying to @CTZN5 @sonyaellenmann
idk do we need punctuation at all really
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holy shit Cormac McCarthy was right i don't want him to be right
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I do *hate* that he doesn't use quotation marks, just makes his writing needlessly harder to parse
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i fucking hate it too, but I suspect the style would work just fine on the interwebs
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from like the 200s (interpunct became unfashionable) to like the 800s (word spacing became common) people mostly just wrote continuous streams of letters
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Replying to @alicemazzy @0xdeadbabe and
this was more reasonable then tho because they couldn't read silently
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