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Jiminy Cricket Must Die | David R. MacIver

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Before I get on to the main point of this post, let me ask you a question: when reading a piece someone wrote, does it matter if there use of language conforms to the rules of grammar your used to, or is it acceptable if their writing an they’re own dialect? If you’re like me that sentence made you uncomfortable1. There’s a kind of twitch, a feeling that something isn’t right, a desire to fix it. Right? It feels wrong. If you’re a Python programmer, I’d encourage you to go look at should-DSL and stare at the examples for a while until you understand how they work to get a similar sense of wrongness. In his book “Voices: The Educational Formation of Conscience” Thomas Green describes these as voices of conscience. He defines “conscience” as “reflexive judgment about things that matter”, and argues that these voices of conscience are not intrinsic, but learned as part of our moral development through our membership in communities of practice – English speakers, Python programmers, etc. T

Jiminy Cricket Must Die 14 August 2019 Before I get on to the main point of this post, let me ask you a question: when reading a piece someone wrote, does it matter if there use of language conforms to the rules of grammar your used to, or is it acceptable if their writing an they’re own dialect? If you’re like me that sentence made you uncomfortable 1 . There’s a kind of twitch, a feeling that something isn’t right, a desire to fix it. Right? It feels wrong . 1 If you’re not like me, the issue is that their are many “sounds like” substitutions where I use e.g. the wrong variants of “there”, “

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