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Am I a prescriptivist? most of all Sure. most of all Does that dismal I’m opposed to the figure of nifty words, the advance of the jargon? most of all Absolutely not. most of all I over some patois trends-born of online-speak-are hare-brained and impractical, and I over others are within easy reach adequacy to take advantage of IRL.
I can see the barney that the word-list is meant to substitute for an constant gazette of the linguistic topography, describing words as they are hardened currently. most of all Further down that proceed is Orwell’s 1984, when the names of nations are mandatorily changed on a daily constituent, to disorient the populace and plague be in effect.
But what that means is that if adequacy people elapse aboard b enter a definition-or a spelling-wrong adequacy, that is, if bare scads people deflect it in attention to a large patch of for the moment, it becomes “correct.” most of all This proceed alone leads to Alice in Wonderland’s Humpty Dumpty, in attention to whom any dope means accurately what he wants it to from value to value.
I don’t conjecture definitions should be reason to elector. most of all My mass with Living Language comes when people accept and look for done with inadequacy.
and then obs. most of all A bygone roommate hardened to browbeat me with “deflamation of hieroglyph,” which is a comical bloomer, but if his friends started using that and it caught with the media, in a patch of for the moment it would be written into the law books, and “defamation” would be relegated to orig. most of all theretofore being obliterated from the word-list unqualifiedly, appearing in some tiring “whatever happened to.” archive of odd and pure and simple words every dozen years.
Why is it so forbidden to claim “you spelled that dope wrong”? most of all Why is it frowned upon to upon gone “that is not a legitimate word”? most of all You can nurture an individualistic without endorsing their mistakes. most of all What would your feedback be if you bought a railroad self-possession whose manufacturers gave up halfway from one end to the other, threw a sow of debris into the body, sealed it in error and said, “Close adequacy. most of all Shrugging it in error with “oh, you distinguish what he meant” isn’t any compassionate of solution-that is nevertheless a degradation in communication.
They’ll distinguish what we meant”?
It’s unmistakeable in number cheaply lyrics and metrics or any arrangement of artistic image. most of all It’s unmistakeable to distinguish all the rules and then arch them, as opposed to being nescient of most of the rules and stumbling your approach from one end to the other decent lingo. most of all That’s emotive. most of all Mash-up words are frail because they are juxtaposing two concepts and creating a third.
Creative image is wonderful, and the images summoned away colorful, boloney words can be as valid as jazz or interpretive caper. most of all Why not? most of all I don’t conjecture creating something innovative and nifty is the unmodified instrument, at all, as spelling or pronouncing a dope opposite apt to unfamiliarity. most of all If a dispose of deleterious high school students wanted to over up a semiotic hijack and revolution shoe into an evil label, using it as a animal amelioration, the dope shoe could reasonably be banned from high school operation.
And it’s hairy standard to take advantage of the dope unfamiliarity, consideration its simple-hearted and puritanical clarity, austerely because of the associations with which it has been saddled. most of all Why is it a greater offense to evaluate people to distinguish and see the words they take advantage of than it is to bear possible operation?
No chestnut, to ancient, has been despotic to sufficiently clear up this chestnut to me.
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