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A Prescriptivist? I? Me? No. But.

Just between you and me when you say between you and I methinks us need to talk.

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Or not.

And if you think I’m a prescriptivist on this issue, I get it. Fr, you might be right.

Or not.

Perpend: “The strict separation between prescriptivism and descriptivism as applied to works of grammar and usage has in recent years been questioned and is increasingly seen as artificial, reductive, and a hindrance to a complete and nuanced understanding of usage” (Straaijer).

Ahh . . . Clarity.

Straaijer, Robin. “Linguistic Prescriptivism.” Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics, edited by Mark Aronoff, Oxford University Press, 2017.

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