Talk:Corruption (grammar)

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        what is the defination and type of corruption?

[edit] This article is inarticulate

I fixed what I could, but I don't even know what this ungrammatical sentence from the history section is supposed to mean, so I took it out. Whoever knows what it should probably make it make sense and put it back in:

In cases it would be implied, and in others an accidental fault on one side.

NickelShoe 21:37, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV

does not mean descriptivism. While I happen to hate prescriptivism, calling it a "notion" and refusing to actually use the word "corruption", which is the title of the article, is clearly a POV, even if it is the correct one. NickelShoe 22:47, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

NPOV actually does mean descriptivism. Describing something in the terms of what it is instead of the terms of what certain people think it should be is exactly what neutrality means. I stand by my use of the word "notion," but I don't have a problem with the way you phrased it, so that's okay. However, using the word corruption to describe these language changes is to give the notion of linguistic corruption validity and to tacitly approve those classist (etc.) prescriptivist ideals. Dave 01:36, 2 January 2006 (UTC)