Linguistic prescription

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title: Linguistic prescription
text: Linguistic prescription is the establishment of rules defining preferred usage of language. These rules may address such linguistic aspects as spelling, pronunciation, vocabulary, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Sometimes informed by linguistic purism, such normative practices often propagate the belief that some usages are incorrect, inconsistent, illogical, lack communicative effect, or are of low aesthetic value, even in cases where such usage is more common than the prescribed usage. They
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description: Prescriptive rules of grammar and usage
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date created: 2003-05-18T14:08:34Z
date modified: 2024-08-29T22:17:06Z
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