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| Aug 8, 2011 at 13:53 | comment | added | Alenanno | @Kosmonaut: +1 I agree. Indeed, "wrong" and "nonstandard" are not the same thing. | |
| Sep 6, 2010 at 15:21 | comment | added | Kosmonaut Mod | I feel the same way as nohat, and have no problem suggesting in the same breath "this is what people say" and "this is considered standard for formal writing or speaking in this context", even if they contradict each other. Most important to me is that people are aware of which is which — that is, if someone answers that saying X is wrong, but it is actually just nonstandard, I will make certain to point that out. | |
| Sep 6, 2010 at 7:08 | history | edited | Jonik | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Aug 25, 2010 at 7:25 | comment | added | nohat | @Shinto Sherlock my views are anything but neutral. I don’t think I have anywhere claimed otherwise, and I have gone out of my way to be plain about my biases. I am disappointed that you have stooped to implying that I am a hypocrite. | |
| Aug 25, 2010 at 3:45 | comment | added | delete | @nohat: it's interesting that you can talk about neutral point of view while simultaneously classifying answers or usage guides as "good" or "better", implying your views on answers and language guides aren't neutral. | |
| Aug 6, 2010 at 20:45 | comment | added | nohat | I think the reasonable approach is to take an approach like Wikipedia's "Neutral Point of View". Good answers will report facts of usage and facts of what prescriptivists say, synthesize all the facts, and let readers decide for themselves. This is how the better usage guides (such as Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage) already work anyhow. | |
| Aug 6, 2010 at 19:47 | history | answered | MatthewMartin | CC BY-SA 2.5 |