I believe the language ought to be descriptive not prescriptive. But I’m not an absolutist about that. It’s kind of weird, but I don’t like some things that have happened, like flammable and inflammable. They just seem lazy and I feel like we should have forced correctness down people’s throats on that one.
Aren’t the French notorious for wanting language to be prescriptive? I may have that wrong, my information is probably from the late 1960s early 1970s. Lol.
I believe the language ought to be descriptive not prescriptive. But I’m not an absolutist about that. It’s kind of weird, but I don’t like some things that have happened, like flammable and inflammable. They just seem lazy and I feel like we should have forced correctness down people’s throats on that one.
Aren’t the French notorious for wanting language to be prescriptive? I may have that wrong, my information is probably from the late 1960s early 1970s. Lol.