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Language has always been a push and pull between evolving (descriptivist) and correct (prescriptivist) usage. Neither side is going anywhere.

• zimpenfish 2y ago
  > correct (prescriptivist) usage Oof, I know there's a bunch of linguists and grammarians who are going to mock you for that bracket.
  • mplanchard 2y ago
    Why? Prescriptivist/prescriptivism is afaik the usual term. Proscriptivist is the other, but quite rare, so rare that my phone dictionary says it’s a misspelling.
    • zimpenfish 2y ago
      > Prescriptivist/prescriptivism is afaik the usual term. It is but it was the "correct" part attached to prescriptivism they'd be mocking because that is not how linguists and grammarians work (they are descriptivists and fond of making fun of prescriptivists.)
      • mplanchard 2y ago
        Oh yeah lol I should have put it in quotes, but by the time I thought about it I was past the edit window! C'est la vie, I'll take the mockery.
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