Language Hat

A recent exchange with Language Hat, a great blog on language issues had us update links: this blog to Language Hat and an old post on Language Hat that points to an article I once wrote for the Vocabula Review, the online newsletter fighting the unjustifiable fight for linguistic prescriptivism.

I must say that the editor there was kind and open enough to request and publish my article, one which argues forcefully against everything the newsletter stands for. Nevertheless, prescriptivism in English was once based merely on an inferiority complex when comparing English to the “perfect” and, because it’s dead, unchanging Latin, but is now just another excuse for  sky-is-falling-things-aren’t-like-they-used-to-be bigotry. But I digress.

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2 Responses to “Language Hat”

  1. Robert Hartwell Fiske
    November 5th, 2007 10:14
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    Alan

    And I invite you again to write an article for The Vocabula Review. In your 1999 article for Vocabula, you wrote “I hope someday to have enough time to collect my unkempt thoughts into a form that might help undo the damage I believe linguistic luddites have done.” Do you have enough time now?

  2. Alan
    November 5th, 2007 19:15
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    Thanks again for your openness to opposing opinions. I’m afraid I don’t have the time now. Thoughts on this (and other subjects) remain unkempt.

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