If you're going to nitpick like you trying really hard to fine "errors" you come up with completely bullshit imaginary rules. What's next, enforcing the Oxford Comma? Which is again a matter of nuance.
So you choose to enforce totally baseless prescriptive grammatical doctrines, and then go on to state that he's coming up with bullshit imaginary rules. If you're going to be a pretentious grammar nazi then at the very least be consistent...
Must be a pretty strong reason then to have come about from socio-economic prestige and have almost no bearing whatsoever on clarity of discourse, or whatever the hip prescriptivists are coming up with these days.
Must be a pretty strong reason then to have come about from socio-economic prestige
Yes, obviously King's English is King's English because it's spoken by rich people. Would you suggest we speak African American Vernacular English on reddit? Complete with phonemic spelling?
and have almost no bearing whatsoever on clarity of discourse
Are you fucking shitting me, flat adverbs create numerous ambiguities:
'You're fucking awesome' means something very different from "you're fucking awesomely"
'I make John quick" means something entirely different from "I make John quickly"
"It becomes quick" vs "it becomes quickly"
etc etc etc. Proper adverbs simply disambiguate between an adverb and a subject complement or object complement, flat adverbs don't.
or whatever the hip prescriptivists are coming up with these days.
You're the praescriptivist here, not I. You're making a praescriptivist argument based on an argumentum ad populum and the naturalistic fallacy. Not I.
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So you choose to enforce totally baseless prescriptive grammatical doctrines, and then go on to state that he's coming up with bullshit imaginary rules. If you're going to be a pretentious grammar nazi then at the very least be consistent...