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> There are no prescriptive dictionaries, at least not correct ones, for living languages. there are no 100% correct descriptive dictionaries. Any prescriptive

• dspillett 2y ago
  > Any prescriptive dictionary is automatically correct. … in the view of their compilers. I could write a prescriptive dictionary far more easily than I could get others to accept it as correct.
  • throwaway290 2y ago
    If you write a prescriptive dictionary it is correct because you are dictating the norms not describing what is real. Yes you would have to be involved with a regulatory institution first
• computably 2y ago
  Right, just like every law is automatically just. /s
  • throwaway290 2y ago
    If it's not just then change the law!