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by gjvc
28 days ago
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are you high / in wonderland? “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass http://www.cleavebooks.co.uk/grol/alice/glass06.htm |
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Descriptivism is overwhelmingly the mainstream view or practice of language scholars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_description