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The descriptivist's dilemma (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 years ago by pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works

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alt text: A two panel comic. In the first panel there are two buttons labeled "I don't believe in prescriptivism" and "'Literally' cannot mean 'figuratively'". A finger hovers between the buttons. In the second panel, the finger's owner is sweating and wiping his brow, unable to decide.

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[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

James Joyce is a bad example. My man will use any word phthalatically, praxically and with attendancy to drum the nepenthe of the scouring sense held within the addled consciousness that inexorably reaches for the Cratylus — περὶ ὀνομάτων ὀρθότητος — Hades grins, his priapus rising, and farts laconically; toilets toilets all is toilets and shite to shine in the blithering morn