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unfortunately been exposed to languagejones. youtube needs a “dislike this timestamp” button. i’d be mashing. trying to watch in good faith but he’s yet another prescriptive “achktualy” linguist. the type of person to say you can’t call yourself an artist without ever making a sale.

Scarsion 😱

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i hate this disdain for amateurs. amateur work is the outcome of passion for a thing without quantifying its virtues. meaning you can be both amateur and better than any professional or academic. so why do so many linguists proclaim to love language yet hate when anyone actively participates in it?

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Scarsion 😱

@sarsion.net

if your argument can be boiled down to cherry-picking out “weird sounding sentences and phrases” while YOURSELF admitting english is lacking in useful moods and tenses, then you’re more in love with technical precision than artistic freedom. i could say more, but you know the routine, “if i speak”.