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==Descriptivists vs prescriptivists== | ==Descriptivists vs prescriptivists== | ||
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, | There are some people who add multiple supplemental qualifiers to the term "incel" and thereby give it a much more narrow definition thereby diverging significantly from den Boon's definition, thereby creating a sort of "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. |