Four Gorgeous Novels in non-normative English
where 3rd grade teachers go to die
There’s this old argument between the Descriptivists and the Prescriptivists and it goes something like this. The “Descript-” side insists that human language is a shifting, morphing, breathing thing. It takes on whatever forms or structures it requires, and leaves us with a dictionary that, theoretically, begs to be . . .
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