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>Today on detransjoy,
The "read another book" condemnation was, not wrong, but a wrong attack to make. The only way to fix English is for some book or author to become so popular that it stabilizes the language around that author for a while. A Shakespeare. A Pushkin.
As it is we're letting random instagram and Gender Studies fads drive the vernacular in different directions and occasionally you talk to an "English speaker" and it's like talking to an alien or a bad MTL from another language entirely.
The "read another book" condemnation was, not wrong, but a wrong attack to make. The only way to fix English is for some book or author to become so popular that it stabilizes the language around that author for a while. A Shakespeare. A Pushkin.
As it is we're letting random instagram and Gender Studies fads drive the vernacular in different directions and occasionally you talk to an "English speaker" and it's like talking to an alien or a bad MTL from another language entirely.