As a (barely) recovery grammar festidian I highly recommend checking out this video by Dr Geoff Lindsey [1]
TLDW: some fascinating realignment of perspective from a linguist about such things [^2], and the - frankly moderately mind-blowing - revelation that despite caring about language I've been gleefully pronouncing "covert" 'wrong' my whole life (and will likely continue to do so)
As an aside: despite caring about "correct" use of language I've always been willing to frivolously split infinitives - it's against the rules, but I think quite an effective evolution of language
Good to have linguists around reminding us to boldly go explore :)
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As a (barely) recovery grammar festidian I highly recommend checking out this video by Dr Geoff Lindsey [1]
TLDW: some fascinating realignment of perspective from a linguist about such things [^2], and the - frankly moderately mind-blowing - revelation that despite caring about language I've been gleefully pronouncing "covert" 'wrong' my whole life (and will likely continue to do so)
[1]: https://youtu.be/I6duEGj04Mg
[^2]: edit for clarity: such things being the concept of "normal forms" or rules in language.
As an aside: despite caring about "correct" use of language I've always been willing to frivolously split infinitives - it's against the rules, but I think quite an effective evolution of language
Good to have linguists around reminding us to boldly go explore :)