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Prescriptivist Christianity

September 23, 2017 Andrew Arensburger

I’ve been called a Grammar Nazi. I don’t call myself that, but I will cop to “grammar cop”, “pedant”, “stickler”, and other descriptors and epithets in that vein. And one argument that I’ve run into over and over is that language evolves over time, an argument bolstered by the fact that most English dictionaries are descriptivist,… Continue reading Prescriptivist Christianity

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