The best linguistic metaphor ever is about lecturing whales on how they are singing wrong and bad and should sing better
@AndriErlingsson Do "prescriptivists" even exist anymore in the academy? I thought it was just a term for English teachers now
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@arthur_affect They do. They've sort of wedged themselves in as studying the "aesthetics" of language absent of its social context -
@AndriErlingsson Ha ok whatever
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