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r/interestingasfuck • u/gogoak69 • 14h ago
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It's pronounced your-ah-nis not your-A-nus
• u/diamondblocks 10h ago Prescriptivism is a plague • u/RedDiamond6 10h ago Wtf is prescriptivism? Activists for prescriptions? Anyways, thanks. I really laughed too when I posted it. • u/diamondblocks 9h ago Prescriptivism is PRESCRIBING how language SHOULD BE used. There is no such thing as wrong use of language. All languages and how they are communicated are equal and beautiful. Descriptivism DESCRIBES how language IS used Hope that makes sense • u/RedDiamond6 9h ago It does. Thank you. 🤦🏼♀️😄 Listen, if you don't say the word correctly, the spell wont work, okay? It's important. I'm not sure we have the same sense of humor and that's okay. No prescriptivism in humor either. • u/ragerevel 9h ago Sounds like someone hasn’t had Uranus visited in a while!
Prescriptivism is a plague
• u/RedDiamond6 10h ago Wtf is prescriptivism? Activists for prescriptions? Anyways, thanks. I really laughed too when I posted it. • u/diamondblocks 9h ago Prescriptivism is PRESCRIBING how language SHOULD BE used. There is no such thing as wrong use of language. All languages and how they are communicated are equal and beautiful. Descriptivism DESCRIBES how language IS used Hope that makes sense • u/RedDiamond6 9h ago It does. Thank you. 🤦🏼♀️😄 Listen, if you don't say the word correctly, the spell wont work, okay? It's important. I'm not sure we have the same sense of humor and that's okay. No prescriptivism in humor either. • u/ragerevel 9h ago Sounds like someone hasn’t had Uranus visited in a while!
Wtf is prescriptivism? Activists for prescriptions?
Anyways, thanks. I really laughed too when I posted it.
• u/diamondblocks 9h ago Prescriptivism is PRESCRIBING how language SHOULD BE used. There is no such thing as wrong use of language. All languages and how they are communicated are equal and beautiful. Descriptivism DESCRIBES how language IS used Hope that makes sense • u/RedDiamond6 9h ago It does. Thank you. 🤦🏼♀️😄 Listen, if you don't say the word correctly, the spell wont work, okay? It's important. I'm not sure we have the same sense of humor and that's okay. No prescriptivism in humor either. • u/ragerevel 9h ago Sounds like someone hasn’t had Uranus visited in a while!
Prescriptivism is PRESCRIBING how language SHOULD BE used. There is no such thing as wrong use of language. All languages and how they are communicated are equal and beautiful.
Descriptivism DESCRIBES how language IS used
Hope that makes sense
• u/RedDiamond6 9h ago It does. Thank you. 🤦🏼♀️😄 Listen, if you don't say the word correctly, the spell wont work, okay? It's important. I'm not sure we have the same sense of humor and that's okay. No prescriptivism in humor either. • u/ragerevel 9h ago Sounds like someone hasn’t had Uranus visited in a while!
It does. Thank you. 🤦🏼♀️😄
Listen, if you don't say the word correctly, the spell wont work, okay? It's important.
I'm not sure we have the same sense of humor and that's okay. No prescriptivism in humor either.
Sounds like someone hasn’t had Uranus visited in a while!
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u/RedDiamond6 11h ago
It's pronounced your-ah-nis not your-A-nus