Robert Hartwell Fiske strikes me as a prig and a bully

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May 28, 2009, 14:28

arnie

Robert Hartwell Fiske strikes me as a prig and a bully

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.

Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.

May 29, 2009, 05:57

goofy

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

quote:
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.

May 29, 2009, 06:39

zmježd

Yes, he's pretty much a linguistic troll. I have his book. It's part of my prescriptivist collection.

—Ceci n'est pas un seing.

May 29, 2009, 13:38

<Asa Lovejoy>

So you don't prescribe his book?

May 29, 2009, 15:36

<Proofreader>

NOt eveen if it's inscribed?

May 30, 2009, 21:12

Kalleh

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.