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NeverFadingWood
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Linguist/Teacher/Translator. Interested in all things linguistic. Otherwise music/politics/cats He/him. Owned by Marmite (see avi) Music: dwoogie.bandcamp.com/ #ActuallyAutistic, so please be direct Kraków, Poland
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Here's the full rant, to which I fully subscribe.Here's the full rant, to which I fully subscribe.

I hate this role of correcting elementary errors of linguistic analysis, or questioning unthinking prescriptions that are logically incoherent, factually wrong and promptly disobeyed by the prescriber. Historians aren't constantly confronted with people who carry on self-confidently about the rule against adultery in the sixth amendment to the Declamation of Independence, as written by Benjamin Hamilton. Computer scientists aren't always having to correct people who make bold assertions about the value of Objectivist Programming, as exemplified in the HCNL entities stored in Relaxational Databases. The trouble is, most people are much more ignorant about language than they are about history or computer science, but they reckon that because they can talk and read and write, their opinions about talking and reading and writing are as well informed as anybody's. And since I have DNA, I'm entitled to carry on at length about genetics without bothering to learn anything about it. Not.
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Linguist/Teacher/Translator. Interested in all things linguistic. Otherwise music/politics/cats He/him. Owned by Marmite (see avi) Music: dwoogie.bandcamp.com/ #ActuallyAutistic, so please be direct Kraków, Poland
464 followers623 following14.9k posts
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