People are very bad at understanding the difference between "should do" and "would benefit from doing".
yes, language has a set of rules (grammar) but the rules themselves are not subject to strict rules
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I don't think normative implies strict rules? "Explicit is better than implicit" is a normative claim with no strict prescription.
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hmm, so let's think of examples "heteronormative" to mean implies "don't be gay", pretty prescriptive no?
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In general prescriptive is a subset of normative, and compound terms often acquire significantly more specific meanings.
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being normative about language semantics never works out. Saying words are strict subsets of others doesn't fully make sense.
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that's literally not how our brains compute semantics. Your temporal lobe is not set theoretic.
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even French users say le weekend to the chagrin (see what I did there) of the French academy
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anyway, I do agree with you. I just pointed out a meaning of should that esp USA English (I think)
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doesn't make accommodation for usually, hence confusion.
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