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minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·18 days ago English is descriptive, not proscriptive. Surely there are no languages that base their rules on forbidding certain pronunciations? (Proscriptive means forbidding; I assume you meant prescriptive)
minus-squarethemeatbridge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·18 days agoIndeed, you’re correct. Although the French do have the DGLFLF.
minus-squareGurfaild@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·18 days agoHiatus avoidance in Classical Latin poetry is the closest thing to a rule I can think of
Surely there are no languages that base their rules on forbidding certain pronunciations?
(Proscriptive means forbidding; I assume you meant prescriptive)
Indeed, you’re correct. Although the French do have the DGLFLF.
Hiatus avoidance in Classical Latin poetry is the closest thing to a rule I can think of