What's the right way to use language? What is proper grammar? Let's explore prescriptive, descriptive and theoretical approaches to language.
Key ideas, rough definitions:
- Prescriptivism dictates how you ought to do something (like speak a language).
- Descriptivism captures how you actually do something.
- Theory successfully models, explains, predicts something.
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