c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 Sep 2026 15:40 This Sentence Is Not A Rule check post at origin
ah prescriptive linguistics, never change.
This isn’t prescriptive linguistics
if these linguists are surprised that people use language however they like then they sure as beans ain’t descriptive.
i don’t think people are naturally speaking in Escher sentences.
i mean if you say
Nobody is surprised by anything. They’re describing a phenomenon that happens in language.