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Putting aside the technicalities (it is not language that is prescriptive or descriptive, but linguistics), that’s a widespread position among perfectly literate people, including professional linguists. Nothing to do with the number of “likes”.

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dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Sure, languages evolve I guess but this isn’t really that IMO.

The whole idea of etymology is that you can figure out what a word means from its roots. If you throw all that out, you give up the scaffolding that makes words make any sense. Same goes for grammatical rules. It seems like the argument for descriptivism is “let’s not be elitist when people become less competent with the rules of a language”, and while that’s a fine ideal, yer usin ma words wrong!

I suspect there is also a body of professional linguists who oppose your point for the same reasons.

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- dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  You sound like the kind of person who beat up black people because they don’t speak good enough according to you.
  
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