I'm not a descriptivist! I think that everyone should speak English the way I speak it! (I'm right, and everybody else is wrong) It's awful, being a prescripti

I'm not a descriptivist! I think that everyone should speak English the way I speak it! (I'm right, and everybody else is wrong) It's awful, being a prescriptivist. Everything you read howls at you "Ignoramus journalist!", and everyone you meet seems to be foreign. Every dictionary seems to have been compiled by an "algorithm", based on some irrelevant corpus; and the meanings of words I thought I knew keep shifting. I guess defending Norlins against a hurricane tidal surge must have felt a bit like this. Maybe I should just chill a bit more.