Timeline for Why use "at compile time" rather than "at compilation/compiling time"?
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| Jan 6, 2020 at 16:05 | comment | added | John Lawler | Of course not. But it's not up to us, any more than the U.S. economy is up to bank clerks. | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 14:50 | comment | added | Ben A. | Let me add a third: If grammar ceases to be prescriptive it will lose relevance for 'common' people and will enter the ivory tower - warmly welcomed by philosophy. Is that what grammar scholars want? | |
| Jan 3, 2020 at 17:45 | comment | added | John Lawler | Good luck with that. The problem is that there are vastly more non-native speakers teaching the English they have learned in schools than there are teachers who actually understand the grammar and don't use the old terminology. It will never die and we will see it in questions here until the heat death of the English universe. | |
| Jan 3, 2020 at 14:11 | comment | added | Ben A. | @John Lawler: from Wikipedia 'Recently, efforts have begun to update grammar instruction in primary and secondary education. The primary focus has been to prevent the use of outdated prescriptive rules in favor of laying down norms based on prior descriptive research and to change perceptions about relative 'correctness' of prescribed standard forms in comparison to non-standard dialects.' First: Rules are dead. Long live norms! Second: I wonder if people will gladly use correct non-standard forms in letters of application and the like. | |
| Jan 3, 2020 at 1:13 | vote | accept | xmllmx | ||
| Jan 2, 2020 at 23:07 | history | edited | John Lawler | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 2, 2020 at 19:57 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Time and time again. | |
| Jan 2, 2020 at 18:13 | history | answered | John Lawler | CC BY-SA 4.0 |