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0 pointsderleth12y ago0 comments

Downvoting linguistic knowledge doesn't make it any less true.

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I'd be curious to see an example of a dialect in which "to affect change" is more correct than "to effect change"?

Some people seem to like pushing descriptivism too far. "Somebody said it, therefore it's correct."

What basis for judgements of correctness would you suggest, if not facts about how English speakers speak English?

FkZ12y ago

Neither one is more correct in isolation as they mean different things.

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I'd be curious to see an example of a dialect in which "to affect change" is more correct than "to effect change"?

Some people seem to like pushing descriptivism too far. "Somebody said it, therefore it's correct."

What basis for judgements of correctness would you suggest, if not facts about how English speakers speak English?

FkZ12y ago

Neither one is more correct in isolation as they mean different things.

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