Prescriptive vs Descriptive

Neither.

Prescriptionism is a way to add an additional layer of friction to language and prevent it from changing too fast or for enormous pockets of different dialects to emerge. But it's obvious that it's a ruse.

read DFW's review of the usage dictionary for HarperCollins. most wonderful analysis I've ever read of this subject

Explain

They are both correct.

Language requires consistent patterns of usage and grammar in order to work. This is the inarguable underlying mechanism of language. You can't Finnegan's Wake your way through a conversation and expect another human being to understand you. This is prescriptivist.

Language also changes over time and can be used in ways that act contrary to the underlying mechanics. This is descriptivism.

Users of a language transfer from prescriptive to descriptive as their mastery of the language increases. It is not an either/or situation.

>You can't Finnegan's Wake your way through a conversation and expect another human being to understand you.
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This
Real friends should understand you on a unconscious level

Let's say 80 and 20.

Descriptivist here.