Point me towards a single modern academic prescriptive linguist with publicly-available writing in english, and I will be grateful and fascinated. Even just a single modern prescriptive linguist, without any of those…
> Colour me also more than slightly intrigued by this idea of being from the "actual Mid-Atlantic"- which was an ocean last time anybody checked. That is exactly why "mid-atlantic accent" is called that[0]. It's halfway…
The first thing is obviously playful hyperbole, but I don't know about "childish". But, regarding your second quote... if you bring up the idea of a way of speaking being "better" or "worse" to a modern linguist, trust,…
> The entire concept of an elocution class is wildly offensive to most of the modern linguists I know Emphasis mine. Are you a linguist?
Point me towards a single modern academic prescriptive linguist with publicly-available writing in english, and I will be grateful and fascinated. Even just a single modern prescriptive linguist, without any of those…
> Colour me also more than slightly intrigued by this idea of being from the "actual Mid-Atlantic"- which was an ocean last time anybody checked. That is exactly why "mid-atlantic accent" is called that[0]. It's halfway…
The first thing is obviously playful hyperbole, but I don't know about "childish". But, regarding your second quote... if you bring up the idea of a way of speaking being "better" or "worse" to a modern linguist, trust,…
> The entire concept of an elocution class is wildly offensive to most of the modern linguists I know Emphasis mine. Are you a linguist?