"We try to keep the information to a minimum because too many descriptive things ends up with him having to process too much," Raker said.
AH: I think with all the writing that Manchester was doing before, it was far more abstract when it came to personal details, and it was all about very descriptive things.
So think of me, dear reader spending days and days at the edges of a tiny island, watching peregrine falcons, or kestrels, cormorants, buzzards, gulls, descending and climbing, climbing and descending, surrounded by shapes of sky and sealights that would sorely tax anyone's descriptive abilities – things that stretch the mind and teach it humility and let it be content.
But as an introduction, he says that there are two kinds of norms: prescriptive norms are rules about how you should do things; descriptive norms come from across the community.
Say things descriptive like, "Looks Up At With Hawaiian Blue Eyes" or "Runs French Tips Through Long Blond Hair".
Remember you can have more than one descriptive word for each thing.
"I would hope by this modest descriptive study to put things on an empirical footing".
I am, among other things, a descriptive linguist: a card-carrying member of the Linguistic Society of America who has written many articles and books on how people use their mother tongue, including words and constructions that are frowned on by the purists.
While social sciences attempt to replicate scientific models to study human reality, their approach is primarily descriptive, that is, explaining things as they are while abstaining from normative or prescriptive claims.
Try to use descriptive words to keep things interesting or just use a thesaurus.
