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@ryanhoulihan My sister is a linguist and she has worked on documenting dying languages with fewer than ten native speakers. She says you’re not there to prescribe how the language should work, but to describe how people use it and what it means to them. We should have the same mindset with English. Sure there’s an element of right and wrong when you’re writing a legal document or a paper for school. But what goes into the dictionary is a description of what we mean and we get to influence that.