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tialaramexlast Sunday at 11:11 PM1 replyview on HN

Nah, prescriptivists love writing books saying that a thing almost everybody does - sometimes including themselves - is wrong. Prescriptivist amateurs with strong opinions sell reasonably well, publishers are quite fond.

But this is part of a project by academics and the academics abandoned prescriptivism because it's not science. We don't have prescriptivist chemists or physicists either.


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windwardlast Monday at 1:15 PM

Do you have any examples of the books?

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