As I’ve noted before, while I have philosophical disagreements with prescriptivists about English usage, my main practical disagreements are with people who might be labeled “assertionists.” These are ...

We also see a prescriptivist approach in dictionaries, although this language resource comprises both prescriptivism and descriptivism. Dictionaries define how words should be used. They include rules ...

SO-CALLED "descriptivists" and "prescriptivists" in language love to hate each other. It's dirty hippies versus fascists, permissivists versus authoritarians, or, in neutral terms, those who talk ...

TEXTUALISM in law and prescriptivism in usage are, in some ways, estranged cousins. It is fitting, then, that Antonin Scalia, textualism’s most prominent advocate, and Bryan Garner, the face of modern ...

Martial arts maestro Bruce Lee in his book, “Striking Thoughts,” stated that “Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” I encountered his book in the gift shop of ...