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In discussing the third edition of Merriam-Webster's New International Dictionary (MW-III), Green describes one of its main advances as a general move away from America's traditional prescriptive lexicography, towards a more descriptive, British style.
Such information is not prescriptive or proscriptive, it is descriptive of certain attitudes—right or wrong—about the language and has its proper place in a dictionary.
Nevertheless, regulations consistently focused more on defining the metes and bounds of the permissible than on prescriptive mandates, and their implementation was effected largely through the mechanism of “assurances”—commitments that institutions would faithfully safeguard the specified perimeters of acceptable conduct.
Unfortunately, that leads to inconsistencies, for dictionaries report what they find and are not intended as sources of prescriptive decisions.
One could argue, charitably, that the movie is meant to be prescriptive, that Barker intends for us to regard the ways in which his subjects delude themselves and thereby learn to see through our own self-delusions.