Except if you're talking about Turkish, TDK dictates what words are real, how they're written, what they mean and other grammar and writing rules.

My ex-wife was a word snob. I wish I'd seen this when I was married to her.

I love militant descriptivists

English dictionaries are also very much on the descriptive side of things as of late, especially compared to their counterparts among other languages.

Dunno how the tea totallers do things but here in burgerland we actually have sort of a minor annual event finding out the latest slang terms and grammars that have entered this year's edition of the webster dictionary, and which words have fallen out of significant use enough to be dropped from the book too.

Fine, but I'm still not happy about 'performant'

Given our thoughts are largely impacted by the vocabulary we know, being able to come up with new words can be considered a super power!

Some people think god is an English teacher and his cock is a huge red pen.

Ok but "melty" isn't a real word and I'll die on this hill

even if it's a real word I hate it