normative language
a tense of expression
In response to commentary, when people say, “stop telling us what we should and shouldn’t do,” in a way as to insinuate they are thereby dismissing words from an intellectual and pursuit-of-the-truth perspective,
those people should sit on it.[i]
Because I hate to break this to you,
But that is called “normative language.”
(Take your phone and type the words “normative language” into Google.)
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Now.
If:
“I have opinions.
I have eyes.
I have a brain.
I have a pulse.”
- Deal with it!
It had might as well be a grammatical tense.
Unless you expect every sentence with “without stepping on any toes and respecting all viewpoints equally with zero judgment at all,” stand down.
If you don’t want to listen to what they have to say, by all means, crawl in your hole.
Earth will spin on.
[i] Mr. Cunningham. Happy Days.
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