Yeah there’s a whole lot of stuff to say about descriptivism vs prescriptivism, Roland Barthes made his whole career on that, but the formulation of “it’s fascist because vibes and distant past” is just meh.
The closest the argument that prescriptivism is fascism gets to being right is how prescriptivism is used against students who speak a vernacular English associated with a racial minority, equating not talking white with talking wrong.
I would say that’s more of a consequence or a symptom of prescriptivism being fascistic, in the sense that it self-reinforces the policing tendencies of language by engaging with another component of policing racial minorities…
There are points where descriptive grammar drives me up the wall. One that I’ve noticed is that bias is increasingly being used in place of biased. Such as “bias reporting” or “bias person”.
Calling it fascism is a bit much but prescriptive grammar (as opposed to descriptive) is bad
Yeah there’s a whole lot of stuff to say about descriptivism vs prescriptivism, Roland Barthes made his whole career on that, but the formulation of “it’s fascist because vibes and distant past” is just meh.
The closest the argument that prescriptivism is fascism gets to being right is how prescriptivism is used against students who speak a vernacular English associated with a racial minority, equating not talking white with talking wrong.
I would say that’s more of a consequence or a symptom of prescriptivism being fascistic, in the sense that it self-reinforces the policing tendencies of language by engaging with another component of policing racial minorities…
There are points where descriptive grammar drives me up the wall. One that I’ve noticed is that bias is increasingly being used in place of biased. Such as “bias reporting” or “bias person”.
that just parses as incorrect, is that really a dictionary way to use bias?
Accidentally put in the wrong word there.
ah the reverse lol. i do agree with bias tho that’s irritating
The dictionary is the cop of words