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Madmachine

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that's deep, man
« on: July 04, 2016, 08:48:09 am »

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I am a Grammar Communist. I believe that the means of word production (i.e: dictionaries) should be seized, for the good of the people.

We are succeeding. You can tell, because the Oxford English Dictionary made an emoji word of the year.

This is not only a clever snowclone of "Grammar Nazi", but also the polar opposite of Grammar Nazism.

There are two opposing camps when it comes to the study of linguistics -- linguistic prescriptivism and linguistic descriptivism. Linguistic perscriptivism is the attempt to prescribe, i.e. dictate and standardize language, dialect, and usage based on criteria such as clarity, aesthetics, and cultural purity. Linguistic descriptivism, on the other hand, permits language to evolve on its own, and merely records the results. This, of course, is an oversimplification, but these two approaches to linguistics are diametrically opposed, and the middle ground between them does form a sort of sliding scale -- much like the traditional right-left model of politics, which puts fascism on the far right and communism on the far left.

Thus, we can say that Grammar Nazism is the extreme of linguistic prescriptivism, idealizing a world where the language and its usage by all speakers is frozen in time in a perfect state, whereas Grammar Communism is the extreme of linguistic descriptivism, idealizing a world where the dictionary is filled with net slang, emoji, and the most fleeting of trendy buzzwords.
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I am a Grammar Communist. I believe that the means of word production (i.e: dictionaries) should be seized, for the good of the people.

We are succeeding. You can tell, because the Oxford English Dictionary made an emoji word of the year.

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Re: that's deep, man
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2016, 08:56:35 am »

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Re: that's deep, man
« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2016, 08:59:41 am »

I think I made a thread like this a while back.

It crashed and burned.
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Re: that's deep, man
« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2016, 09:00:24 am »

Isn't the fate of all threads to die?

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Re: that's deep, man
« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2016, 09:00:45 am »

All threads die. Not all threads live.
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Re: that's deep, man
« Reply #5 on: July 04, 2016, 09:01:39 am »

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Re: that's deep, man
« Reply #6 on: July 04, 2016, 09:02:33 am »

All threads die. Not all threads live.
see, this is the sort of post I had in mind when I made this thread
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I am a Grammar Communist. I believe that the means of word production (i.e: dictionaries) should be seized, for the good of the people.

We are succeeding. You can tell, because the Oxford English Dictionary made an emoji word of the year.

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Re: that's deep, man
« Reply #8 on: July 04, 2016, 09:52:55 am »

Bet you thought it was a game

Also isn't an important part of marxism that language can be divided into speech for the oppressed and speech against them?  YOu missed hte part where the grammar communists use their power to declare any words they don't like enemies of the working vocabulary and send them to word gulags.
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Re: that's deep, man
« Reply #9 on: July 04, 2016, 10:20:57 am »

Dude, have you ever looked, I mean really looked at things? Like, you know, shoes, goats, walls, fish, plants, body parts... things like that? It's like, wow, this is some deep shit right here, man. I could spend the rest of my life just looking at things.
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I am a Grammar Communist. I believe that the means of word production (i.e: dictionaries) should be seized, for the good of the people.

We are succeeding. You can tell, because the Oxford English Dictionary made an emoji word of the year.

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Re: that's deep, man
« Reply #10 on: July 04, 2016, 10:28:35 am »

I was sitting with my bro waiting for the fireworks yesterday when an 8 year old went past us, walking over the rocky part of the shore where he might have slipped and hurt himself.  I was like "Dont slip dude".  And the kid told me "eight year old have a mind of their own."  that's deep, man
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Re: that's deep, man
« Reply #11 on: July 04, 2016, 10:29:39 am »

Make thread. Get treat. Nod.
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Re: that's deep, man
« Reply #13 on: July 04, 2016, 12:42:59 pm »

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