He mentions two prescriptivists whose views you can look up: John Humphrey and Lynne Truss. His views are very much in line with mine. I really try not to wince when some uses of language offend me because that is so old hat. Be tolerant and try and work out why language is being used that way. That's what a descriptivist does.
http://youtu.be/J7E-aoXLZGY
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