prescriptivism

[Rob Pensalfini]

On having a construction rejected by a native speaker, who then produces
the very same construction minutes later in speech:

I've had this happen a few times too.  I guess it goes to show that
prescriptivism in grammar is quite independent of having either a written
language or a standard dialect.

Rob


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