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 ...

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 ...

About a decade ago, I read a blog written by a linguistics student who proclaimed, “Prescriptivism must die!!!” He was talking about the school of thought that believes that textbooks and other ...