Archive for Prescriptivism
I’ve been hearing about The Mac Is Not a Typewriter, by Robin Williams (no, not that Robin Williams), more or less since it came out in 1990, but I never got around to reading it until now. A quick look at the table of contents makes clear that I probably already know everything in it, […]
Several years ago, I took a sideswipe at “literally” in an entry about something else. John S and Shmuel both gently pointed out that I was wrong to be fussy...
It's National Grammar Day! Apparently created by the folks who brought us the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar (SPOGG). The National Grammar Day site initially looked annoyingly prescriptivist...
Ta-Nehisi Coates talks with OED editor Jesse Sheidlower about whether "conversate" is a word. I And dictionary editors in general. Lexicographer Erin McKean gave a talk at TED in 2007...