I think pragmatics of normative are being relaxed now to the point of losing a lot of semantics 
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Replying to @o_guest @DRMacIver and
yes, language has a set of rules (grammar) but the rules themselves are not subject to strict rules
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Replying to @o_guest
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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Replying to @DRMacIver
hmm, so let's think of examples "heteronormative" to mean implies "don't be gay", pretty prescriptive no?
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Replying to @o_guest
(also heteronormative is often used to cover a lot of more vague things as well as a specific prescription against being gay)
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Replying to @DRMacIver
I'm not sure if you're actually going to define it for me because you think I don't know what it means or just disagreeing?
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Replying to @o_guest
Disagreeing. It tends to get used for a lot of things like e.g. cultural bias against men hugging that are not precisely gay.
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Replying to @o_guest
I think we're probably running into difficulties of having precise conversation on twitter. Shall we stop?
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Replying to @DRMacIver
I'm interested in why our conversations often result in me being corrected but never in us agreeing in earnest.
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but yes, let's. I'd welcome an interaction that didn't involve that tho. 
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