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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Studies linguistics, but not grammar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

"I defend my poor grammar by appealing to linguistics."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

What? Grammar is a very important part of linguistics. But linguistics is a science, not a morality - it describes the world of language as it actually is, not as someone in the 19th century demanded it should be.