Dictionary staff really ought to be the most descriptivist since they can see these battles being fought, lost and buried over timehttps://twitter.com/NoraReed/status/808506226069762049 …
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Honestly grammarians would be more useful if they were more descriptivist, and acknowledged different, morphing sets of rules exist
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It's like how baby name books that tell you what the name means in the original language are pretty useless for all practical purposes
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But the far more subjective and difficult question of "Hey what kind of person does this name signal you are" is actually worth discussing
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Like how it's not important whether "invite" and "ask" as nouns are "wrong", it's important how people might react if you use them that way
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