Linguists having too much fun.
In ancient times, the linguists on the blog "langauge log" used to take glee in brutally trashing the linguistic incompetence of "prescritive linguists", those blokes who said "avoid passives" (they'd incorrectly identify active things as passive), "don't split infinitives" (often bad advice), and "don't end a sentence with a preposition".
Here's a modern day linguist trashing a tictokker. It's gloriously brutal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z5TXctHcSA
#linguistics #tictok
David, a Bostonian in Tokyo.
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