Comic #6244: prescriptive

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Panel 1: Person 1: “Are you a linguistic prescriptivist or descriptivist?” Person 2: “Obviously a descriptivist. The words we use and the language we speak aren’t intrinsically better or worse, merely different in interesting ways.”

Panel 2: Person 1: “So we should just accept that sometimes terms change in ways that may offend our sensibilities? Mispronunciations become standardized. Wrong usage becomes right. Former slurs become descriptions and former descriptions become slurs.” Person 2: “Exactly.”

Panel 3: Person 1: “So then you should accept the word ‘quantum’ as meaning any situation with an unknown outcome or any situation where fussing with something.”

Panel 4: Person 2: “Wow, I don’t know how you’re feeling so you’re in ‘Schrodinger’s emotional state.’” Person 2: “DIE! DIE!”

[Comic attributed to SMBC Comics]