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(linguistics) Someone who lays down rules regarding language usage, or who believes that traditional norms of language usage should be upheld.

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prescriptivist

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prescriptivist

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言語使用に関する規則を定める人、または伝統的な言語使用の規範の維持を支持する人

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As a prescriptivist, she often corrected colleagues' emails for grammar and style.

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言語の伝統的な規範を重んじる人として、彼女は同僚のメールの文法や表現をよく訂正した。

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The plutocratic tone and styptic wit of Safire and Newman and the best of the Prescriptivists is often modeled after the mandarin-Brit personas of Eric Partridge and H. W. Fowler, the same Twin Towers of scholarly Prescriptivism whom Garner talks about revering as a kid.

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