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Re:English as She Is Spoke by denton-scratch on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @02:17PM (#34236521)
I'm trying to avoid this conversation :-) I think descriptivism/prescriptivism is probably off-topic in this thread.

Oh well -

Someone upthread implied that the purpose of a descriptivist dictionary is to help readers/hearers to understand unfamiliar words, not to guide writers/speakers in correct usage. Thing is, they're all descriptivist. There are opinionated guides like Fowler (and the subject of this article! /on-topic), but I don't know of an opinionated lexicon.

Re:English as She Is Spoke by amanaplanacanal on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @10:39PM (#34241719)
Honestly it’s just my pet peeve. It’s like grammar nazis. I want to tell them this just isn’t how language works.