Linguistic Prescriptivism

What you're doing when you create an Urban Dictionary entry for something that no one says but you think that they should.

Making a UD entry for a joke instead of documenting actual slang is linguistic prescriptivism.

Linguistic Prescriptivism by Kiro Osex XIII May 29, 2018

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