prescriptivist

Someone who tries to control the way you speak, but doesn't know a thing about the way the language actually works

A prescriptivist teacher wouldn't let his student go to the bathroom until he said "may I" instead of "can I"

by duckprescriptivism January 17, 2023

Prescriptibitch

Someone who is militant about correcting grammar mistakes. Evil. Usually has no friends.

Person one: "I ain't got no homework."
Person two: "Uh, actually it should be 'I don't have any homework.'"
Person one: "Dammit, quit being such a Prescriptibitch."

by MissHubris May 7, 2009

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.

by Kiro Osex XIII May 29, 2018