I ain't no prescriptivist.
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Prescriptivist
Synonyms for "prescriptivist" (5 found)
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Finnish
2 entries- preskriptivistinen adj (Translations)
- preskriptivisti noun (Translations)
German
2 entries- präskriptivistisch adj (Translations)
- Präskriptivist noun (Translations)
Polish
2 entries- preskryptywistyczny adj (Translations)
- preskryptywista noun (Translations)
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I'm not a prescriptivist.
Source: tatoeba (13635237)
The plutocratic tone and styptic wit of Safire and Newman and the best of the Prescriptivists is often modeled after the mandarin-Brit personas of Eric Partridge and H. W. Fowler, the same Twin Towers of scholarly Prescriptivism whom Garner talks about revering as a kid.
Source: wiktionary
In short, they tend to present Indian English as nothing more than "standard" English with a select collection of lexical peculiarities tacked on, as it were, many of which would be regarded as "errors" by prescriptivist language scholars.
Source: wiktionary
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