hung/hanged

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Mon Sep 3 19:02:29 UTC 2012


At 9/3/2012 01:35 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>BTW, what's the difference between appealing to authority and
>straight-up prescriptivism?

What if the authority is descriptivist?  Is a descriptivist authority
still prescriptivist in not prescribing?

Joel

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