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Some descriptivist linguists have argued that criticisms of “bad” grammar found in dialects like African-American Vernacular English perpetuate systemic racism.

Linguists these days are mostly descriptivist observers who hover somewhere outside the fickle language peeve fray.

To behold a grammatical descriptivist at war with a grammatical prescriptivist who happens to be her twin is truly an uncommon pleasure.

“It seems that English speakers are increasingly finding useful the breadth in meaning and understanding that’s present in the term,” the Merriam-Webster descriptivist Emily Brewster says in an email.

That end, please: you’re team descriptivist.