People like these dictionary editors have an interesting place in the evolution of language. They contribute to the stability of the language, which allows us t

People like these dictionary editors have an interesting place in the evolution of language. They contribute to the stability of the language, which allows us to communicate more effectively by enforcing clarity and precision, but at the same time, the ideals they champion cannot survive longer than a few generations. Something like a "defender of punctuated equilibrium," which is actually not equilibrium. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_drift http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_drift