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[–] 0 points 3 years ago (18 children)

Because language evolves and isn't prescriptivist. Especially in the US where a Founding Father wrote a dictionary to explicitly reject strict prescriptivism(it was still prescriptivist in ways but better than contemporaries).

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    the argument is about america??

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    Yeah. It is about why Americans say it- so it is relevant to American history?

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    Why does it matter if the target audience understands it?

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