Associations to the word «Prescriptivist»

Wiktionary

PRESCRIPTIVIST, noun. Someone who lays down rules regarding language usage, or who believes that traditional norms of language usage should be upheld.
PRESCRIPTIVIST, adjective. Having a tendency to prescribe.

Wise words

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates