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You said "of course not" and then ended with a prescriptivist point of view, you're lost mate.
Edit: I think you need to read a bit more about the difference between prescriptivism and descriptivism and maybe read something by a linguist, or watch one of their YouTube channels. Just because you're rejecting one prescriptivist point of view, if you take up another prescriptivist point of view in counter, it's still prescriptivist. The point is, enforcing language in any direction is a pointless task, language will never do what you want it to do, all you're doing by trying, is making sure everyone is annoyed with you.
I think you need to do some more research. Nothing I said was prescriptivist.
Saying people should say things a specific way is prescriptivist. Descriptivist is, language gets defined by its users rather than rules. As soon as you set a rule, you're a prescriptivist.
Yes, and saying people should say things so that other people understand them isn't. I'm saying people should say thing so that other people understand them.