There are understandable reasons why arguments occur about language. 2.People feel more strongly about language education than about small differences in language usage. 3.Our assessment of a person's intelligence is affected by the way he or she uses language. 4.Prescriptive grammar books cost a lot of money to buy in the 18th century. 5.Prescriptivism still exists today. 6.According to descriptivists it is pointless to try to stop language change. 7.Descriptivism only appeared after the 18th century. 8.Both descriptivists and prescriptivists have been misrepresented.