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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.
Bodine analyzes the ways in which (male) grammarians (both descriptive and prescriptive) have since the seventeenth century sought to establish he as the sex-indefinite pronoun despite evidence that actual usage consistently contradicts that.
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.
In addition, other revisions were made to make the final rule less prescriptive and to allow establishments greater flexibility in meeting the requirements.
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.