Actually, that wasn't de-escalation. I, um, lost it and blew up. I don't think that yelling at people can fairly be called de-escalation. All it can be said is that they decided that the person ranting about proscriptivism vs. descriptivism was probably crazier than either of them, so they backed off.
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Date: 2010-04-15 10:39 am (UTC)