Monzonaut AMA - Sophie - Senior Web Engineer Business Banking

[Revels]

AMA - Craig pls.

[davidwalton (Award Winning Hot Coral Analyst)]

Voted

Love a good Ames Room myself… Blackpool Pleasure Beach had a great one in the 80’s/90’s, along with the ‘revolving room’ too. Here’s the Ames Room illusion ripped apart…

[Dan5 (Dan)]

@sophiekoonin

It’s a funny one, I was thinking about this. As linguists we’re taught to be descriptivist , not prescriptivist - that is, it’s not our place to say what is right or wrong, we should simply observe how language is used. The rules of language were basically decided by some 18th century grammarians who decided to impose some rules based on what they thought was “correct”, which led to a lot of regional/social language features being labelled as ‘incorrect’ or ‘bad’.

I didn’t realise you had a degree in linguistics @sophiekoonin! Could have done with your support last year ago on a Sunday morning when we discussed this to death