{"id":862,"date":"2020-01-08T00:17:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T00:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/?p=862"},"modified":"2023-05-31T15:16:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T19:16:17","slug":"not-prescriptivism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/not-prescriptivism\/","title":{"rendered":"tfw it&#8217;s not prescriptivism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think it would be nice to have a term that allowed us to distinguish between politely asking that we preserve existing useful lexical distinctions (such as between <em>terrorism<\/em> &#8216;non-state violence against civilians intended to delegitimize the state&#8217; and terms like<em>\u00a0atrocities<\/em> or\u00a0<em>war crimes,\u00a0<\/em>between\u00a0<em>selfie<\/em>\u00a0&#8216;photo self-portrait&#8217; and <em>photo portrait<\/em>), and full-blown ideologically-driven <strong>prescriptivism<\/strong>. I do not have a proposal for what this term ought to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it would be nice to have a term that allowed us to distinguish between politely asking that we preserve existing useful lexical distinctions (such as between terrorism &#8216;non-state violence against civilians intended to delegitimize the state&#8217; and terms like\u00a0atrocities or\u00a0war crimes,\u00a0between\u00a0selfie\u00a0&#8216;photo self-portrait&#8217; and photo portrait), and full-blown ideologically-driven prescriptivism. I do not have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/not-prescriptivism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;tfw it&#8217;s not prescriptivism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-language","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}