Inner Prescriptivism
Mark A. Mandel
mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU
Mon Dec 5 14:26:47 UTC 2005
Fred Shapiro wrote:
>>>>>
Jesse Sheidlower just referred in a posting to his "inner prescriptivist." I
notice that it is not uncommon for linguists and lexicographers on this list
to criticize pet-peeve linguistic usages, contrary to the usual
descriptivist ideology of linguistic scholars. I wonder whether there have
ever been any studies done of closet prescriptivism among linguists. (I did
see a study a few years ago revealing that members of the UCLA English
Department, in their own private reading for pleasure, actually preferred
the literature of dead white European males.)
<<<<<
My inner prescriptivist isn't in a closet; he's off in a separate persona,
who's appeared here numerous times:
-- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian,
Orthoepist, & Philological Busybody
a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel
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