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Hey there Reiku san !! Long time no see, and it's nice to see you posting again !!
While I can see the point you are trying to stress there, Reiku san, I must disagree on the grounds that your proposition is not yet so sure a thing. To say that a dictionary prescribes definition and usage only, is most likely incorrect--a better dicitonary will always admit to trying to maintain a balance between prescribing and describing. Then, in turn, to say that the general masses misuse a language is more than not, a very valid statement.
Regarding the adjective lack, I have never come across any evidence of any elipsis in clauses in which the word would be expected to be used as a fixed portion of that same clause, and then, that the modifiers of that word dropped out. Do you happen to have any such evidence on hand?
Maciamo san, you are jumping the gun on that, and again, you are incorrect. But, it has been said before, due to such tendencies, 'believing is seeing
No language is carved in marble so that it is a hardened and unchangable thing, though at any moment, there are speakers who abuse the norms so as to cause the change--and no language is free from it !! NONE !!
While I can see the point you are trying to stress there, Reiku san, I must disagree on the grounds that your proposition is not yet so sure a thing. To say that a dictionary prescribes definition and usage only, is most likely incorrect--a better dicitonary will always admit to trying to maintain a balance between prescribing and describing. Then, in turn, to say that the general masses misuse a language is more than not, a very valid statement.
Regarding the adjective lack, I have never come across any evidence of any elipsis in clauses in which the word would be expected to be used as a fixed portion of that same clause, and then, that the modifiers of that word dropped out. Do you happen to have any such evidence on hand?
Maciamo san, you are jumping the gun on that, and again, you are incorrect. But, it has been said before, due to such tendencies, 'believing is seeing
No language is carved in marble so that it is a hardened and unchangable thing, though at any moment, there are speakers who abuse the norms so as to cause the change--and no language is free from it !! NONE !!