> There are no prescriptive dictionaries, at least not correct ones, for living ...

dspillett · 2025-03-08T10:15:53 1741428953

> Any prescriptive dictionary is automatically correct.

… in the view of their compilers.

I could write a prescriptive dictionary far more easily than I could get others to accept it as correct.

throwaway290 · 2025-03-09T09:31:42 1741512702

If you write a prescriptive dictionary it is correct because you are dictating the norms not describing what is real.

Yes you would have to be involved with a regulatory institution first

computably · 2025-03-12T07:34:23 1741764863

Right, just like every law is automatically just. /s

throwaway290 · 2025-03-13T05:19:55 1741843195

If it's not just then change the law!