•  millie   ( @millie@beehaw.org ) 
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    21 month ago

    Common usage the the norm are literally the same thing.

    Prescriptivists act like ‘the norm’ is some ordained perfection and everything in their own lifetime is an aberration, but that’s just temporal exceptionalism. Do you really think you just happened to be born at a time when the people writing style guides pointed at the be all the all of the English language and all advances are just corruption?