my favorite thing is people who decide that a common word needs a novel usage for moral reasons and try to jam that usage down everybody's throats the only thing worse than an originalist prescriptivist is a fucking neoprescriptivist
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There's also the people who refuse to use a word that is appropriate to the context because they "don't like it": misoprescriptivism. People who insist that their idiosyncratic use of words is normative: idioprescriptivism.
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How deep does the rabbit hole go? google "nostratic" (red pill) or google "kittens" (blue pill)
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I'm a little skeptical that googling kittens is going to give me any particular sociolinguistic insights.
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this, but unironically
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