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by manifoldgeo 635 days ago
I don't mean this in a snarky way, more just to inform: proscribed actually means forbidden unlike the word prescribed, which means recommended.
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I wanted to leave this comment, but now I’m going to have to leave a helpful correction to your comment instead: prescribed is closer to “forced”, or “made the rule”, than to “recommended”. :)