Your profile says that you are an editor. Doesn't that automatically make you a prescriptivist?

Not me; maybe others. I split infinitives with the wildest of abandon -- just a common-sense, eschew-ambiguity kinda gal am I. I refer you to Bill Walsh's book Lapsing Into a Comma and his website, http://www.theslot.com.


Also, isn't it significant how pleasing is the alliteration of prescriptivist and pejorative?

Alliteration hwæt?