The Role of Prescriptivism in Language

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In German, if you have the two subjects and the objects right beside each other it would be very hard if you didn't mark with case to understand which was the subject and which was the object because they both precede the verb. So we just run as a natural functional tendency languages that have that kind of structure have case languages that don't have that type of structure don't have to have case so these are functional developments that arise for our brain's ability to process information. This is part of the structure of how humans work rather than something you need to learn in a style manual or you know that you need to be taught in school It's actually absent from the rules that you know you

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