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Old 12-11-2010, 02:54 AM   #230
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Originally Posted by HHW View Post
and even with us descriptive grammarians!
Yeah, but I find us descriptive grammarians are usually getting bees in our bonnets over prescriptive grammarians telling people what language should be, which is much more rational than prescriptive grammarians getting upset over the way language is.

Edit: I suppose for descriptive grammarians and phonologists to be happy there would just need to be an absence of prescriptive grammarians and phonologists. For prescriptive grammarians and phonologists to be happy there would need to be an absence of language.
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