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OP did you put a typo in your title to bait the prescriptivists?
… Yes, I am totally that clever. 👀
they make terrible linguists too.
They don’t.
Language requires intelligent design from intelligent people sometimes. When needed, prescriptivists in legion can make a literate civilization out of illiterate primitives.
The asinine and the arcane can both make learning unnecessarily difficult.
Prescriptivism is good for language learning, but not for linguistics
