5 Responses to Images of prescriptivism

1. Paula says:

   October 22, 2011 at 11:34 am

   Have a look at this blog: http://stancarey.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/descriptivism-vs-prescriptivism-war-is-over-if-you-want-it/
   There are a couple of images which might be useful.

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2. Kate Wild says:

   October 28, 2011 at 9:19 pm

   How about Lynne Truss holding up a missing apostrophe?:

   

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3. Matthijs Smits says:

   November 2, 2011 at 2:48 pm

   http://www.dmagazine.com/Home/2007/10/12/Dallas_Bryan_Garner_is_the_Leading_Lexicographer_of_our_Time.aspx

   Here is a picture of Bryan Garner, author of “Garner’s Modern American Usage” (among other language books), nonchalantly leaning on his oeuvre. To see him wearing a suit signals to me his primary occupation: that of a lawyer. Other pictures of him can be found on his website http://www.lawprose.org.

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4. usageguides says:

   November 2, 2011 at 3:41 pm

   This compares very interestingly with how Fowler is depicted in Crystal’s Encyclopedia of the English Language (p. 196): in his swimsuit. See also From telegraphese to texting: one hundred years of the Concise Oxford Dictionary at http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/08/knowles-one-hundred-years-coed/.

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5. Paul Bennett says:

   November 11, 2011 at 5:19 am

   I have a simple cartoon I drew myself. Its caption is “Checkout at a prescriptivist’s store”. You are free to reproduce it in this blog. I will email the picture to Ingrid.

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