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Ton den Boon is the editor in chief of [[Van Dale's Great Dictionary of the Dutch language]]. On the 2nd of May 2018, he became the first lexicographer to define the term "incel". Born in 1962, he studied at the University of Groningen and then worked for about a decade as a dictionary editor and communication advisor. He defined "incel" as: | Ton den Boon is the editor in chief of [[Van Dale's Great Dictionary of the Dutch language]]. On the 2nd of May 2018, he became the first lexicographer to define the term "incel". On the day it was defined, it was also made the Word Of The Day in Van Dale's online website. Born in 1962, he studied at the University of Groningen and then worked for about a decade as a dictionary editor and communication advisor. He defined "incel" as: | ||
:# (gender-neutral countable noun) someone who lives an involuntarily celibate life; an acronym of "involuntary celibate".<ref>http://www.vandale.nl/wvdd-incel</ref> | :# (gender-neutral countable noun) someone who lives an involuntarily celibate life; an acronym of "involuntary celibate".<ref>http://www.vandale.nl/wvdd-incel</ref> | ||
==Descriptivists vs prescriptivists== | |||
There are some people who add multiple supplememtal qualifiers to the term "incel" and thereby give it a much more narrow definition thereby diverging from den Boon's definition, thus creating the "den Boon vs supplemental" clash in defining the term incel. The primary cause for this discrepancy is that those in the supplemental camp use a different defining technique called prescriptivism. Den Boon on the other hand uses the descriptivist method in defining the term. | |||
All academic research in linguistics is descriptive rather than prescriptive. | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||