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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think you need to do some more research. Nothing I said was prescriptivist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Saying people should say things a specific way is prescriptivist. Descriptivist is, language gets defined by its users rather than rules. As soon as you set a rule, you're a prescriptivist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Saying people should say things a specific way is prescriptivist

Yes, and saying people should say things so that other people understand them isn't. I'm saying people should say thing so that other people understand them.