prescriptivist
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/pɹəˈskɹɪp.tɪ.vɪst/
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/pɹiˈskɹɪp.tɪ.vɪst/
Noun
Someone who lays down rules regarding language usage, or who believes that traditional norms of language usage should be upheld.
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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 Prescriptivism whom Garner talks about revering as a kid.
Adjective
Having a tendency to prescribe.
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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 prescriptivist language scholars.
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