| 1. | Religions thrive on guilt, and prescriptive grammar is the guilt of linguists.
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| 2. | Linguists refer to them as " prescriptive grammar " usually with a sneer.
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| 3. | The problem is that the prescriptive grammars often purport to be actual human grammars.
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| 4. | Also that all upper and middle class schools should teach such out-of-date prescriptive grammar.
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| 5. | Many prescriptive grammars and style guides include adjectives for inherently superlative qualities to be ungradable.
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| 6. | Linguists normally consider that prescriptive grammars do not have any justification beyond their authors'aesthetic tastes.
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| 7. | But really it's a question of style, and prescriptive grammars are best thought of as style manuals.
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| 8. | However, prescriptive grammar sometimes says that " plural " means two or more, and that affects people's speech.
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| 9. | What their projects have in common that they neither have a rigidly prescriptive grammar, nor a separate vocabulary.
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| 10. | However, from the standpoint of prescriptive grammar the less commonly used " planktic " is more strictly the correct adjective.
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