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Anonymous ID:mlE+uWfX Thu 06 Dec 2018 09:09:02 No.7067651 View View Reply Original Report

Do you believe dictionaries should be descriptive or prescriptive? Is Unicode an anchor weighing down linguistic evolution?

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Anonymous ID:yU8Aaitw Thu 06 Dec 2018 09:16:58 No.7067676 Report

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>Do you believe dictionaries should be descriptive or prescriptive?
descriptive. linguistic prescription is lame and hard to enforce.

>Is Unicode an anchor weighing down linguistic evolution?
no. not any more than the printing press.

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Anonymous ID:lmCLyv1x Thu 06 Dec 2018 09:23:16 No.7067685 Report

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>Is Unicode an anchor weighing down linguistic evolution?

No, if anything it is implementing a universal and systematic structure to adhere to instead of arbitrary nonsense of characters. Your first question is fucking stupid..

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Anonymous ID:CqRdnKWW Thu 06 Dec 2018 13:02:31 No.7068947 Report

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>descriptive or prescriptive
does that really matter when youtube cesspool fucktards will use them so it serves their narrative anyways?

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