Comment on Linguistics
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 5 months agoPrescriptivists you mean. Descriptivists describe language phenomena as they are without passing judgment on their validity whereas prescriptivists have certain assumptions on what constitutes parts of the language to be valid and prescribe meaning to them
7bicycles@hexbear.net 5 months ago
there’s a joke here about me rejecting the notion of what prescriptivist and descriptivist mean
but yes, thanks, got some wires crossed there
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
My comment was more so meant to prove to myself that I didn’t mix anything up and still remember the definitions lol