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      Lear Welsh or French. They’re both Prescriptive languages where that is (officially) true. English, however, is a descriptive language which means the dictionary is there to record how language is used not to define how it should be used

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      I think that’s polarising because using a weird incorrectly does not change its meaning; it’s far more subtle than that