Critics claim the new rules are too prescriptive.
even in this age of e-mail the prescriptive response to a wedding gift is a handwritten thank-you note
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contemporary, current, modern, modernized, new, new-age, present-day, updated, up-to-date;
futuristic, high-tech (also hi-tech), hot, latest, mod, modernistic, newfangled, new-fashioned, red-hot, space-age, state-of-the-art, supermodern, ultramodern;
nonconformist, nonorthodox, original, progressive, revolutionary, unorthodox, unprecedented, unusual;
authentic, established, fixed, historical;
common, habitual, orthodox, usual;
ancestral, historic, old-time, old-world;
aged, age-old, ancient, antediluvian, hoary, old, venerable;
: giving exact rules, directions, or instructions about how you should do something
: providing rules and opinions that tell people how language should be used
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