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I can't say that I've ever heard of Robert Hartwell Fiske before, but this review doesn't exactly inspire me to rush to buy his book.


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He works on The Vocabula Review. Here's an interview:

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Robert Fiske is very vocal about his dislike of descriptivists. “Descriptivists and laxicographers have really had their day. I really want to upset them. I want them to know that their purpose in life is really questionable,“ Fiske said.
 
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Yes, he's pretty much a linguistic troll. I have his book. It's part of my prescriptivist collection.


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So you don't prescribe his book? Roll Eyes
 
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NOt eveen if it's inscribed?
 
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Wow, that's quite some book apparently. No thanks. There are too many like that out there. It seems to me there are way more prescriptivist books that descriptivist ones.
 
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