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Proscriptivist?

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 05, 2006 06:21 AM
It's prescriptivist. I might've assumes it was a typo, but he continually uses that word and its cognates throughout the article.

There is a very real difference between the words "proscribe" and "prescribe", and I would hope that a linguist would be aware of them.

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