Associations to the word «Descriptivist»
Noun
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Wiktionary
DESCRIPTIVIST, adjective. Subscribing to, or related to, descriptivism.
DESCRIPTIVIST, noun. An advocate of descriptivism; one who believes a language is defined by usage rather than theory.
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.