Disagreeing. It tends to get used for a lot of things like e.g. cultural bias against men hugging that are not precisely gay.
ok, I think technical terms are fine but these words aren't technical in all contexts
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Hmm that's true but I think here the technical use predates colloquial use, and when that happens I try to retain technical usage.
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that's linguistic prescription if you think others will/should follow suit tho... I just don't think that's how language works
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also what do you mean by predates?
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As in I think colloquial use of both "normative" and "prescriptive" mostly come out of academic usage, rather than other way around
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if the context is why does "should" confuse people then you have to discuss semantics and pragmatics regardless
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I think maybe I still don't understand your point about colloquial use of should. I don't mean to claim should is technical.
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ok probably too many wires crossed then

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Yeah, this is what I mean about most of the problem being that we try to discuss these things on Twitter.
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It's super easy to do when things are badly threaded, slightly asynchronous, and squeezed into 140 characters. :-(
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I do think we have a variety of actual philosophical disagreements, but we'd be able to have them more productively if elsewhere.
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