Sorry to say but dictionaries should be descriptive, not prescriptive. If you poll a 1000 people you’d get something like 85% approval rate for this in the UK.
Here’s the actual good counter to that: if anyone tries to cite the dictionary for some sort of political argument call them a moron because that’s not what the dictionary is for. It’s like claiming the proof to pythagoras theorem is that it’s in the cambridge.
85% of people in the UK don’t know what the Comintern is or that it was founded by Lenin, if the dictionary was descriptivist of the usage of “Comintern” in the UK they would leave the word blank and not add it to a dictionary, or simply say “word used to demonize socialist institutions”.
Sorry to say but dictionaries should be descriptive, not prescriptive. If you poll a 1000 people you’d get something like 85% approval rate for this in the UK.
Here’s the actual good counter to that: if anyone tries to cite the dictionary for some sort of political argument call them a moron because that’s not what the dictionary is for. It’s like claiming the proof to pythagoras theorem is that it’s in the cambridge.
85% of people in the UK don’t know what the Comintern is or that it was founded by Lenin, if the dictionary was descriptivist of the usage of “Comintern” in the UK they would leave the word blank and not add it to a dictionary, or simply say “word used to demonize socialist institutions”.
they would not, no