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Anderson says that we shouldn’t worry about enforcing grammar rules. In support, Anderson says that these rules will change over time anyway. And how do we know this? Because history shows that grammar rules are always changing.

Lipton’s argument leads to the unstated conclusion that we should enforce grammar rules. Lipton supports this by drawing an analogy between grammar rules and laws, since both change over time. However, Lipton says, it’s good to enforce laws—implying that it’s also good to enforce grammar rules.

We want to find a disagreement between Anderson and Lipton. The two disagree about whether we should enforce grammar rules.

Anderson disagrees with this and Lipton agrees, so this is the disagreement. Anderson’s main conclusion is that we shouldn’t enforce grammar rules—put differently, we shouldn’t resist grammar violations. Lipton’s implied conclusion is the opposite, that we should resist.

Anderson agrees with this, and most likely, Lipton does as well. Lipton seems to take Anderson’s claims about language evolution for granted, and just disagrees about whether that’s a basis to ignore grammar rules.

Neither speaker makes this claim. Anderson is the only one who talks directly about how languages change over time, but even so doesn’t mention how users of the language are impacted by those changes.

Neither speaker expresses an opinion about this claim. Anderson and Lipton are discussing in the abstract whether grammar rules should be enforced. Neither one mentions how often people actually violate those rules.

Anderson most likely agrees with this, and Lipton probably does as well. Anderson’s description of language evolution (which Lipton seems to accept) does mention that changes in usage and rules can cause new languages. That’s consistent with this statement.

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