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English[en]
In the tradition of Noah Webster, who wrote the first American dictionary, Mencken wanted to defend "Americanisms" against a steady stream of English critics, who usually isolated Americanisms as borderline barbarous perversions of the mother tongue. Mencken assaulted the prescriptive grammar of these critics and American "schoolmarms", arguing, like Samuel Johnson in the preface to his dictionary, that language evolves independently of textbooks.
Swedish[sv]
I den tradition som inleddes av Noah Webster, som skrev den första amerikanska ordboken, ville Mencken försvara ”amerikanismer” mot den stadiga ström av engelska ”skolfröknarnas” preskriptiva grammatik, och hävdade, likt Samuel Johnson i förordet till hans ordbok, att språket utvecklas oberoende av textböcker.

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