What's in the Dictionary?

In linguistics, lthis prescriptivism. There is a right way, and if you don't say it the right way, you're wrong. In chinese, there are so many words that have like, multiple pronunciations. And so there's just a lot of variety, i call these pronunciation variants. Especially as you get to higher levels, you'll come across these. This reminds me, john, that when i was growing up in school, i had a teacher who was always like, you ain't ait a word, cause i aint not in the dictionary. But that's not the case, right? Language essentially it's a tool,. We used to