Hi there. Linguist with a degree here, and I taught English as a Foreign Language at a University. So basically, Iâve spent the last 7 years of my life heavily involved in the field that youâre trying to talk about.
Fuck off, because you know nothing about âbasic rules of linguisticsâ. Those ârules of grammarâ they teach in school are stuffy, unnatural and full of bullshit. Thereâs no logical reason for 99% of the things they tell you in English class, and speaking and writing in such a way is no more superior than not speaking that way. Language just doesnât work that way. Our brains are much more sophisticated than that and can process incoming and outgoing information in many more forms than that. English grammar rules were created by white people⌠and many of them were trying to make English more like Latin⌠but they were dead fucking wrong about the origin of English, and the idea that you need to create and enforce artificial to preserve a language; what they ended up doing was creating the system which marks people who donât speak this artificial language.
According to Google NGrams, ableist/ableism dates back to psychologistsâ works published in 1978 and the following years into the â80s, before the internet even was brought into academia, let alone into our homes. Besides, all words are âmade upâ; arguing that a word is stupid because itâs made up is pointless. iPhone? Made up in 2007. Google? 1997. Thatâs a stupid word. Heterosexual? Made up in the late 1800s, so canât use that anymore. I? Well, in its current form itâs about 400 years old, but we can track it back to *egĂłm, which was made up around 4000 years ago. Such a stupid, useless word!
Not to mention, youâre actually wrong. There are plenty of words that keep the -e when adding a suffix starting with a vowel. The bolded words have âsilent Eâ (and youâre wrong, again, as âableâ does not have silent E)
And thatâs not including words with multiple accepted spellings, words that end in <-ee> (eg, decreeing) or words like âtheistâ that are made of a foreign root + -ist, -ism, etc⌠Or words with suffixes starting with vowels other than <-i-> (eg, changeable, noticeable, courageous). Those rules from English class are not only bullshit, but even if they were worth their salt, theyâd still have tons of exceptions.
Your example of <scale> fails because the <le> doesnât even function the same way; in one, it lengthens the <a> of a single syllable word, and in the other, it marks that the word is two syllables. One is silent, the other isnât. (and I donât think anyone would even make that âscaleâ argument in the first place)
Oh, and by the way, spelling isnât grammar. SPELLING ISNâT GRAMMAR. Us linguists really need to get business cards to hand out with that written on them. Everything you know about grammar is wrong.
Your argument that people who âdonât like using white people thingsâ should stop using the internet, tumblr and computers is a pretty weak straw man and you fucking know that thatâs not the issue at hand.
Basically, congratulations: youâve made the most poorly thought out argument for ârules of linguisticsâ that Iâve ever seen.
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