Yoong Liat wrote:However, I'm obsessed with prescriptive English, while some who cannot have a good command of English in terms of grammar and word usage will mostly like say I go for descriptive English.
Obsession is decidedly not a good thing. It has implications of over-attentive interest in detail at the expense of the wider picture, and of unappealing and counter-productive mental rigidity. That is just my opinion.
Did you mean to write,
I'm obsessed with prescriptive English, while some who cannot have a good command of English in terms of grammar and word usage will mostly
like to say "I go for descriptive English.
"?
If you are suggesting that those on the descriptivist side of some imaginary line are there because of laziness and imperfect grasp of language, then you are gravely and deeply in error.
I do not feel that your command of English is yet sufficiently great for you to have the right to take up such a position. (Actually, I do not feel that anybody has such a right.)
The trouble is, people take up such positions at least in part because of their attitudes to life itself -- what else is language but the means to live life? -- there are those people who love to think that there should be unchallengeable "rules" which should definitely govern use of language, and there are those who feel that a grammarian's job is to record and describe as well as (not instead of) guide and advise. That is just my opinion also.