I really hate it that "ideation" has seemingly become a real word. I'm not a #prescriptivist, but I think I try to avoid coining words that sound stupid.

I am a total #descriptivist with regard to English most of the time, but a #prescriptivist when it involves making language more or less clear with changes. And I tell you, of all the changes that I see coming, losing the #subjunctive mood is really a bummer.

This article on the #Duolingo website is about changes #English might see over the next hundred years or so.
https://blog.duolingo.com/english-language-predictions/

Were your #English/ #Literature teachers in #school #grammar Nazis who would declare certain phrasings, words or grammatical structures as just "incorrect" without any further elaboration?

All of mine were, unfortunately, and I always saw it as complete bullshit because the things that were "incorrect" were just slightly informal or broke made-up grammarian rules like #preposition stranding being bad or w/e.

I'm just one person, though, and would like to know what the experience is of people in other countries, both English-speaking and not.

If my experience is common, though, I feel that would explain a lot when it comes to discourse about language from those uninterested or untrained in #linguistics.

#Prescriptivist snobs often say stuff like "#language has absolute rules, you can't just make stuff up", which sounds exactly like something one of my English teachers would say.

Without any exposure to other perspectives, people internalise this odd idea that languages are rigid rulesets.