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Prescriptivism may
refer to:
Linguistic prescriptivism,
preference for
prescribing rules of
language Universal prescriptivism, a meta-ethical
theory of...
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prescriptivists prescribe the rule
addition that less
should be used with
units of
measurement (e.g. "less than 10 pounds/dollars").
Prescriptivists might...
- insecurity.
Propagating such
language attitudes is
characteristic of the
prescriptivists in
Eastern Europe,
where normativist ideas of
correctness can be found...
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Prescriptivists consider these forms incorrect, but
descriptivists may
simply describe them as a
natural evolution of language; some
prescriptivists do...
- emotivism,
developed by R. M. Hare, is
called universal prescriptivism.
Prescriptivists interpret ethical statements as
being universal imperatives, prescribing...
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emotive meanings, but
these are not
their primary meanings according to
prescriptivists.
Prescriptivism has
faced extensive criticism and
currently has few...
- Look up Mid-Atlantic or
Transatlantic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mid-Atlantic
accent or
Transatlantic accent may
refer to: Good
American Speech...
- this
section is tied to
reliable sources, and there's a
great deal of
prescriptivist punditry about "codification" of
various "rules".
Please improve it...
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recently this has been
considered somewhat controversial by
linguistic prescriptivists. The use of 'literally' as an
intensifier is
recognized as
valid by...
- of the two. Some
examples include:
Because of its
informal nature,
prescriptivists of
English and
Tagalog discourage its use.
There are
examples of modern...
