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Essay / The Importance of Culture and Language - 1013
Prescriptivists want English to be used as it was decades ago, but people's lives change over the years, as do their language. In the 1950s, words like “cell phone,” “Internet,” and “hashtag” weren’t used, but that’s because culture and technology advanced. I think the descriptivist view of language is also the most inclusive. They recognize the languages of other races and ethnicities that mix with English, whereas prescriptivists more or less only use English by "white Americans ».’