Prescriptivism is a policy you can choose to follow, but I don't subscribe to it. I'm a descriptivist through and through. And from what I understand, I'm not t

Prescriptivism is a policy you can choose to follow, but I don't subscribe to it. I'm a descriptivist through and through. And from what I understand, I'm not the only one. The very language I'm writing this to you in is probably the world's most exemplary instance of this principle in action. Besides, isn't using things in other ways than they were originally intended the essence of The Hacker? ;)