Original sentence: The degree to which there is a need to avoid them depends on one's balance point of prescriptivism (ideas about how language should be used, and how much particular prescriptions matter in life) versus descriptivism (the realities of how natural language is used).Usage commentators consider such redundant acronyms poor style and an error to be avoided in writing, though they are common in speech
Edited sentence: The degree to which there is a need to avoid them depends on one's balance point of prescriptivism (ideas about how language should be used) versus descriptivism (ideas of how natural language is used).Usage commentators consider such redundant acronyms poor style and an error to be avoided in writing, though they are unfortunately common in speech