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  • Afit

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    válasz finest #10739 üzenetére

    finest: Azé', mer' az emtívín valamelik zsurpubi, nem tudja, h a music nem adverb, oszt sokan lökik így, attó' még helytelen.

    You probably meant adjective. :)

    Radford a Transformational Syntax című könyvében érdekes gondolatokat oszt meg az olvasóval a "Mi a helyes angol?" témában. Idézek tőle! Read carefully.

    Andrew Radford (you can read more about him here:
    http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/staff/profile.aspx?ID=85)
    :
    Before we go any further, however, it is useful to clear up a number of problems which arise with the notion of ill-formedness. One of these is that it is important not to confuse the descriptive notion of well-formedness with the corresponding prescriptive notion of correctness. For example, there are many dialects of English in which sentences like:

    (7) Mine is begger than what yours is

    are perfectly grammatical, and for speakers of these dialects such sentences are perfectly well-formed. But at the same times, sentences like (7) are of a type stigmatised as incorrect, or bad grammar, by a certain self-styled socio-cultural elite (e.g. school-masters).
    This poses an apparent dilemma for the linguist: should he describe what people actually say, or should he attempt to prescribe what he or others think they ought to say. In other words, should linguistics be descriptive, or prescriptive?

    In actual fact, it is hard to see how anyone could defend the prescriptive approach: in any other field of enquiry, it would be seen as patently absurd.
    What would we say of the sociologist, who, instead of describing the way a given society is, sets about prescribing how he thinks it ought to be?
    And what would we think of the scientist who, regretting the unfortunate tendency for objects to fall downwards by gravity, instead, proposes an alternative model in which everything is attracted upwards towards the sky, simply because he thinks things ought to be this way? No one these days would take any such enterprise seriously; and the same is true of linguistics. Modern lingusitics is purely descriptive, not prescriptive.

    finest: oszt sokan lökik így, attó' még helytelen

    Radford: ... are stigmatised as incorrect, or bad grammar, by a certain self-styled socio-cultural elite

    Afit: Opinion?

    [ Szerkesztve ]

    "There are no facts, only interpretations." - Nietzsche

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