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by schoen 1401 days ago
I'm going to be prescriptive and say that you meant "prescriptive" rather than "proscriptive".

"Prescriptive" means "requiring" or "normative, specifying, prescribing", while "proscriptive" means (more specifically) "forbidding". It has only a negative sense of saying something is not allowed, while "prescriptive" includes a broader sense of specifying or ordaining something in any way.

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I was going to argue, but, yeah - that makes sense.