Written English is a somewhat different matter. Punctuation isn’t spoken and its rules aren’t reducible to aspects of spoken English.
It is plausible to me that some linguists are desriptivists about spoken language but not about written language, but that seems very rare. And dialects of written language as commonly spoken on internet forums, or text messages, are of course just as common as spoken dialects.
Let people communicate how they want. If people actually genuinely end up confused, you can complain.
It is plausible to me that some linguists are desriptivists about spoken language but not about written language, but that seems very rare. And dialects of written language as commonly spoken on internet forums, or text messages, are of course just as common as spoken dialects.
Let people communicate how they want. If people actually genuinely end up confused, you can complain.