I kind of like it when absurd things like prescriptivism are as formal and organized as this. It makes them much easier to mock, deride, and rebel against.

The US by contrast has a similar level of prescriptivism around the English language, largely comprised of biases against regionalisms, speech patterns of the working class, and dialects like AAVE. But it’s enforced informally through snobbery and various other forms of social and institutional exclusion, which can be much harder to schematize and challenge.