I don’t really expect academic analysts or journalists to be on top of noticing “heretical grammar” in common usage,[1] and I suspect that the articles about Trump’s usage are intended as dunks on him.
I bet if you pay attention you’ll see it fairly regularly! (In posts, comments, and blogs… probably not so much in things like Wikipedia or the NYT.)
Geoff Lindsey has lots of videos about academic blindspots like this in phonology (but to be fair, he is an academic himself). The pattern seems to be that the received wisdom gets ossified, and then people in the field don’t even notice that they need to update. I suspect this is pretty common in any domain where there are epistemic authorities people prefer to defer to.
I don’t really expect academic analysts or journalists to be on top of noticing “heretical grammar” in common usage,[1] and I suspect that the articles about Trump’s usage are intended as dunks on him.
I bet if you pay attention you’ll see it fairly regularly! (In posts, comments, and blogs… probably not so much in things like Wikipedia or the NYT.)
Geoff Lindsey has lots of videos about academic blindspots like this in phonology (but to be fair, he is an academic himself). The pattern seems to be that the received wisdom gets ossified, and then people in the field don’t even notice that they need to update. I suspect this is pretty common in any domain where there are epistemic authorities people prefer to defer to.