SoullessAutomaton comments on Zwicky's Trifecta of Illusions - Less Wrong

18 Post author: thomblake 17 July 2009 04:59PM

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Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 18 July 2009 05:53:32PM 3 points [-]

It is a rule of thumb that at least one academic somewhere will sincerely hold any possible position you can think of. Nevertheless, a prescriptivist approach is a fringe position in the field of linguistics, if only because it is usually incompatible with a scientific approach to the subject.