In a future with higher sociolinguistic literacy, history will not be kind to peoples who sabotaged their own language in favour of an arbitrary prescriptive ideal.
The German cofounder of @shopify ponders the difficulty of getting his Canadian employees to openly tout their own (legitimate) achievements at work: https://t.co/ciTOGSqAIK
@attaboy@greenberg Because of this my level of certainty about things has steadily decreased over the years. I'm hoping this makes wrongness logarithmic as we age 🤞