[vinceguidry]

Calling out linguistic prescriptivism is almost as bad a social faux pas as the linguistic prescriptivism itself.

[homonculus1]

IMO it's far more misguided. We can push for precise and efficient language, or we can shrug our shoulders and let the lowest common denominator strip out all nuance.

[vinceguidry]

I was cured of that particular delusion when I realized that language has literally always been attacked since the day it was created.