Monday, October 1, 2012

Understanding the Debate

Prescriptivists: adj.  Attempting to impose rules of correct usage on the users of a language. 
Descriptivist: adj. The doctrine that the meanings of ethical or aesthetic terms and statements are purely descriptive rather than prescriptive, evaluative, or emotive.

Permissive: adj.  Allowing or characterized by great or excessive freedom of behavior.
Dogmatic: adj. Inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true.

Solecism: noun. A grammatical mistake in speech or writing.








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