Yes it's very funny how much overlap there is between people who value scientism and people who enforce static usage rules as if they are objectively correct.

Yes it's very funny how much overlap there is between people who value scientism and people who enforce static usage rules as if they are objectively correct. Among the people whose area of scientific study is the use of language and how it conveys meaning, and especially how and why it changes over time, you will not find very many hard prescriptivists. It's not wrong per se it's just not a very useful model in most contexts.