Language Hackers, Unite!

In Linguistics, like everything, there can be said to be two opposing poles of thought, in this case, Prescriptivism and Descriptivism. The Prescriptivists "prescribe" how you should use your language like a doctor telling you how to take your medicine. The Descriptivists are more like "the Watcher" from the Fantastic Four series, a cosmically advanced alien whose sole purpose was to watch and record everything. In the early series the Watcher is occaisionally distracted by particularly rare or interesting events happening across the Universe. Like an anthropologist he pretends to be Truely Neutral about Everything and perfectly Objective, but he always winds up getting involved, like the time he told Mr. Fantastic that although he couldn't help him fight Dr. Doom, he COULD take him to a room full of advanced weapons.

By this example I mean to shew [ <- archaic British spelling of "show"] that linguists, like quantum mechanics, are hopelessly tangled up in the meat of their science. In particular any pretense to objectivity ... it is to laugh - Ha!! Ha! Ha!

A new orientation must be devised for language study. An active one, and an activist one; a wrecking ball of one or at least a lockpick set. Destructivism? Disengageivism? Attackivism? No: Destandardizationalism.

Language hackers, unite! This is our Rubicon. Look it up.