Daily Archives: September 20, 2013

Are you a language “bully”?

The urge to correct others’ grammar may affect all of us at one time or another. An interesting article in slate.com discusses this issue: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2013/09/language_bullies_pedants_and_grammar_nerds_who_correct_people_all_the_time.single.html An edition of lexicon valley also discusses this issue with linguist John McWhorter: http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2013/08/lexicon_valley_with_john_mcwhorter_on_why_prescriptivism_lives_in_all_of.html

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