tags: prescriptivism

2015

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2015 Apr 21

the neurophysiology of homophone typos

Stop shaming people on the Internet for grammar mistakes. Its not there fault. • WaPo • 2015 Apr 17

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2016

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2016 Jun 7

One Space or Two

The anti-prescriptivist part of me thinks you should be able to choose between one or two spaces. It's the prescription of either as the only correct way that's totally and utterly wrong. The Romans didn't even use spacing or punctuation for that matter or even the letters G, J, U, or W, and those guys conquered all of Europe and signficant chunks of N Africa and the Middle East, so clearly typography is a very infinitesimal concern for a burgeoning civilization ;)

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