Ther very first statement of how you totally decided to ignore what I said about "any more" makes me not want to discuss this with you because you can just ignore what I say again and again (on other topics), Enigmatism415
It used to be one when it was first introduced, yes. So you're just going to call English Romanization and not English writing, or whatever? It is not one any more because it is not some sort of phonetic transcription of the modern sounds. Almost like Vietnamese except that the pronunciation can still be pretty clearly told from Vietnamese orthography except that it uses more than one spelling for some sounds. This is not the case with English.
On language description as opposed to prescription, the line of "correctness" appears to be, from its definition, "how a word is pronounced by a community of people". So if I pronounce 新 as gan1 while everyone else pronounces san1, I would be incorrect, but if everyone pronounces 時間 as si4 gaan3 in a community, e.g. HK, that is probably what Simon Pettersson was talking about.
On the conflation, I actually pronounce "your" and "you're" differently but I'm not sure about others. /jɔr/ and /jʊ(ə)r/ respectively.
This is apparently more of a special thing. Those people are likely not aware of the n/l distinction (as with most people here) but when singing our teachers specifically tell us to sing 你 as "nei5" on the grounds that "it is actually pronounced that way". So that is something people specifically do after training, rather than being a formal/informal distinction.
It used to be one when it was first introduced, yes. So you're just going to call English Romanization and not English writing, or whatever? It is not one any more because it is not some sort of phonetic transcription of the modern sounds. Almost like Vietnamese except that the pronunciation can still be pretty clearly told from Vietnamese orthography except that it uses more than one spelling for some sounds. This is not the case with English.
On language description as opposed to prescription, the line of "correctness" appears to be, from its definition, "how a word is pronounced by a community of people". So if I pronounce 新 as gan1 while everyone else pronounces san1, I would be incorrect, but if everyone pronounces 時間 as si4 gaan3 in a community, e.g. HK, that is probably what Simon Pettersson was talking about.
On the conflation, I actually pronounce "your" and "you're" differently but I'm not sure about others. /jɔr/ and /jʊ(ə)r/ respectively.
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However, you must remember, when people read poetry, sing songs or read the news, nei5 is nearly always used. Lei5 is for formal speech, in other words, most people know that it's pronounced as "nei5" but it's just easier to use lei5.
For example, my music teacher, every time she speaks, she will say lei5. However, if she's singing a song or reading the lyrics, she will always say nei5.
This is apparently more of a special thing. Those people are likely not aware of the n/l distinction (as with most people here) but when singing our teachers specifically tell us to sing 你 as "nei5" on the grounds that "it is actually pronounced that way". So that is something people specifically do after training, rather than being a formal/informal distinction.