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by JasonCEC 1172 days ago
The literal literary contestation between descriptive and prescriptive dictionaries is alive and well[0], though the war has been lost, and your fellow prescriptivist have yet to surrender.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/08/the-d...

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My? Descriptivist dictionaries are a good idea.
Apologies - I wrote that quickly in jest, and in any-case, it seems were on the same side of the descriptivist argument.