• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
    12·
    6 months ago

    Nope, both descriptivism and prescriptivism have merit, depending on the specific case.

    A lot of people using a word as having the opposite meaning out of pure ignorance and/or carelessness is one case where prescriptivism is warranted.

    I’ll die on this fucking hill 😄

    • Belastend@lemmy.world
      21·
      6 months ago

      And you will die on a linguistically untenable hill. Redefining words had happened throughout history and language hasnt died out and its not gotten worse.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 months ago

        And you will die on a linguistically untenable hill

        Is this your way of warning me against going hiking in Wales? 😉

        language hasn’t died out

        Of course not. That’s literally impossible. Don’t be fatuous, Jeffrey.

        and its not gotten worse.

        That’s of mixed veracity at best.