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Skullgrid@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠agodifferent languages and institutions have different viewpoints. Turkish and French are more prescriptive, english and spanish more descriptive*
- except when it comes to those gay alternate pronouns, like ew, we canât reflect the documentation of a language for a few Fa-[slur]s.
calcopiritus@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Spanish from Spain has an official dictionary that dictates what is correct and isnât. You canât be more prescriptive than that. Sure, that dictionary adds words based on usage, even ones that are clear misspellings of the ârealâ word, but they are marked as so.
dustyData@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
The RAE is not a prescriptive institution at all. They fight people on social media over that. Theyâre not shaming anyone for spelling a word different, just describing what the language users are doing.