Let's leave aside the current crop of folks who're still reclining in the easy insight of "there is no objective truth". If you don't want to seem like an idio

Let's leave aside the current crop of folks who're still reclining in the easy insight of "there is no objective truth". If you don't want to seem like an idiot, then don't write like an idiot just because recent descriptivist dictionaries were pleased to take note of the increasingly widespread misuse. You will be judged and you won't always have time to explain your principled write-like-an-idiot stance. Unless you couldn't care less how you come off, because you already care the minimum possible amount.