alt Hacker NewsWhen prescriptivism is balking at usages that have been continuously in effect for four centuries, the problem is not with the usage. The prescriptivism you're using is suspect.
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llbbdd • last Monday at 3:14 PM
Prescriptivism is silly anyway, you'd be better off counting sand.
nyeah • last Monday at 4:40 PM
Yeah. Prescriptivism may have a worthwhile role to play. But it needs to be a lot more thought out than "what some authority wrote 75 years ago".
Prescriptivism is good. I could care less.