LOL Language

There are ten types of people: those who understand binary, and those who do not.
Geeky jokes aside, there are two types of people: descriptivists and prescriptivists. In all honesty, there are many more types of people out there, but for the sake of language and simplicity, let us assume these two are the only ones that matter.


These guys are arch-rivals.
What Holmes is to Moriarty.
What Batman is to the Joker.
What Neo is to Agent Smith.
What Aristotle is to Mashy Spike Plate.

Now, which of the two is the good guy?

Before I venture further, descriptivists are people who focus on the language rules of today, those rules that are ever-so-changing, those rules that allowed 'lol' to be an actual word.

Prescriptivists, on the other hand, are the people on the opposite side of the spectrum. Language should be analyzed and comprehended the way it was back then when language was first founded. The previous statement is an overstatement, but that's the general idea.

What Mario is to Bowser.
What Captain America is to Red Skull.
What Justin Bi*coughsneezeblub* is to music.

Now, what do you think my position is?
It is quite obvious that I'm more in the descriptivist side.

I may have mentioned this a lot before, but language is changing. Even right now. Now being three seconds ago. Now being a bit more ago now. It's still changing. Well, it was changing. I guess it doesn't matter too much since it just changed again. And again.

Congratulations. Now there's another word in the dictionary, another phrase in the books, another meme on the internet, and one less "thee" or "thou" or "whenceupon have'st" in the world.

So should we completely disregard language rules?

maybe but i dont think dats a good idea rly. :)
thats defntly not wut descriptivist r trying to get to here
then wat does it mean?

Language changes. I've made that clear. The rules are constantly being made, scrapped, and changed as we go. I personally think the prescriptivists are being a bit too overly attached to the language that was, in its own days back then, still changing.

So stop stressing. Change is okay. It won't kill you.
Lol.