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Joy is in the ears that hear: Am I the only one annoyed whenever the NY Times does something on languages/linguistics?

bluetoothtoaster:

This is the series of events:

1) Linguists figure something out
2) (5-10 years later) The New York Times writes an article on this groundbreaking* research.
3) The linguistics tag on tumblr become 99% that article, approximately 25% of the posts being prescriptivist…