Ubiquitous prescriptivism

Barnhart barnhart at HIGHLANDS.COM
Fri Sep 10 15:46:16 UTC 2004


Obviously, God is on my side when I'm being either descriptivistic or
prescriptivistic.  It just depends on what I'm trying to do (write a
dictionary entry or admonish my sons to speak as I want them to).  I think
God must be a linguist of particularly wide-ranging philosophy.  By the
way, are speakers of Klingon very prescriptive in their attitudes?  And,
what is the size of the Klingon lexicon?

Regards,
David

barnhart at highlands.com



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