Both Uses of
entity
in
Do You Speak American?
- Fourteen years later, in 1997, citing the continuing "fierce interest in language usage," the magazine returned to the fray with "The War That Never Ends," an article by writer Mark Halpern, blasting Nunberg and other descriptivist grammarians, who "suppose that language is an entity with its own laws of development, or natural destiny, and that prescriptivist grammarians are trying to interfere with the course of that natural destiny."†
Chpt 1entity = person, organization, or anything with a separate existence
- In another ("They put like this bandage stuff around it"), like served "to highlight the introduction of new entities into discourse."†
Chpt 7 *entities = people, organizations, lifeforms, or things that exist separately
Definition:
a person, organization, lifeform, or anything with a separate existence