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bgainor bgainor @thelemmy.club

Programmer with a linguistics background, dad, trekkie (he/him/his)

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(Bad linguistics) Language change is wrong, actually
  • This is fair. Usually when I hear "prescriptive" I have a knee-jerk reaction to it as something bad because it's usually used to refer to people using made-up rules to enforce systems of oppression rather than fight against them like inclusive language does, but I hadn't thought about it as "prescriptivism for good."

  • The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie
  • Ironic that the actor who seems to be the biggest Trek fan also played my least favorite character. Zeph was a cartoon.

  • (Bad linguistics) Language change is wrong, actually
  • Using inclusive language isn't linguistic prescriptivism. Prescriptivism is saying "this word is incorrect English/doesn't mean what you are using it for." Inclusive language is saying "if you use this word, you're being a jerk."