prescriptivist
Having a tendency to prescribe.
Adjective
- Having a tendency to prescribe.
- In short, they tend to present Indian English as nothing more than "standard" English with a select collection of lexical peculiarities tacked on, as it were, many of which would be regarded as "errors" by...
Origin
Etymology tree English prescriptive Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English prescriptivist From prescriptive + -ist.
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descriptionist descriptionistic descriptivist descriptivistic
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Noun
- Someone who lays down rules regarding language usage, or who believes that traditional norms of language usage should be upheld.
- The plutocratic tone and styptic wit of Safire and Newman and the best of the Prescriptivists is often modeled after the mandarin-Brit personas of Eric Partridge and H. W. Fowler, the same Twin Towers of scholarly...