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==Descriptivists vs prescriptivists== | ==Descriptivists vs prescriptivists== | ||
There are some people who add multiple | There are some people who add multiple supplemental 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. | All academic research in linguistics is descriptive rather than prescriptive. |