apologies to anyone who saw but i deleted chp4 of my italian american east coast #spamano fic and have now uploaded the proper chp4 (like almost a month later…) sorry!!
ft. rich kid lovino, food tasting, and some drama!!
https://t.co/0do7jwXPIE
@Xenophon789 we disagree and i dont believe i will change your mind; i dont think he was saying that lanaguage ought to be x, i genuinely think he was describing the phenomenon. you can describe a phenomenon while discussing the negative implications. but idk maybe ur a linguist student
TikTok linguists love to go on about how they are descriptivist not prescriptivist, but suddenly when it comes to AAVE they are really concerned with linguistic purity.
@syrup_secret not liking something isnt prescriptivist! “i dont like when annoying ppl say looksmaxxing” is descriptive. “i dont think annoying ppl should talk and say looksmaxxing and we should ban it from the dictionary” is perscriptivist. i think yall dont like him for diff reasons tho.
@Xenophon789 aave being co-opted and changed can be a real / negative / damaging phenomenon, and you can recognize it and describe it without being perscriptivist aka saying there should be an english rule to not share words between dialects—which he doesnt say.
@Xenophon789 you can not like something and still not pass laws/rules about it? “eg i dont like when people contract ‘yalldntve’ but im not going to tell people to stop”. thats not perscriptivist imo! and also, its weird u call it perscriptivist just bc hes talking abt aave