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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: Prescriptivist #125500 03/20/2004 2:47 PM Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California jheem veteran jheem veteran Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California A prescriptivist is just a descriptivist who is describing a limited (and often obsolete) subset of the language. Or sometimes just an imaginary dialect. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted asap gestation WhitmanO'Neill 03/19/2004 10:10 PM Re: asap gestation sjmaxq 03/19/2004 10:15 PM Re: asap gestation tsuwm 03/19/2004 11:26 PM Re: asap gestation Father Steve 03/20/2004 12:15 AM Re: asap gestation Buffalo Shrdlu 03/20/2004 12:36 AM Re: asap gestation Father Steve 03/20/2004 12:48 AM Re: Prescriptivist Faldage 03/20/2004 2:36 PM Re: Prescriptivist jheem 03/20/2004 2:47 PM Scriptivism musick 03/25/2004 12:06 AM Re: Scriptivism jheem 03/25/2004 12:20 AM Re: Scriptivism grapho 03/26/2004 5:33 PM Re: asap gestation jheem 03/20/2004 2:50 PM Re: asap gestation Father Steve 03/20/2004 3:22 PM Re: asap gestation of troy 03/20/2004 4:56 PM Re: asap gestation Father Steve 03/20/2004 8:52 PM Fan Belt Inspectors grapho 03/24/2004 7:36 AM Re: asap gestation wow 03/24/2004 2:27 PM Re: asap gestation Capfka 03/24/2004 8:31 PM Re: asap gestation WhitmanO'Neill 03/24/2004 3:26 AM Re: asap gestation raju 03/26/2004 10:04 PM Re: asap gestation grapho 03/26/2004 10:14 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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