Prescriptivism and Descriptivism
- Kind
- Internet Article
- Date
- 2012-10-15
- Publisher
- English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
- Retrieved
- Jan 12, 2015
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Prescriptivism and Descriptivism
So, you seem to be at an impasse. On the one hand, you have generations of grade school English teachers rightly warning their pupils that people might chuckle at them if they use the word ‘irregardless’. On the other hand, you have the scientific rigor of the modern linguistic community touting descriptivism as the…