Archive for the ‘The Radical Grammarian’ Category


Catty Remarks On "Dangerous Creatures"

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Originally published on June 1, 2003

Lyle thinks me a representative `prescriptivist’; I usally let people call me that without making a fuss, but I groan inwardly.

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Reply to Halpern’s "Catty Remarks"

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Originally published on June 1, 2003

RG knew he was stepping onto a battlefield, but foreknowledge makes it no less distressing when the bullets begin to fly.

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Drunken Disorder

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Originally published on November 1, 2002

Standard English is supposed to come at you clear-eyed, with a steady gait, not lurching about like a salesman on his fifth Manhattan.

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Fight the Power (Loom)

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Originally published on July 1, 2002

If you look at the primary complaint of the first Luddites, it’s clear they never wanted to blow things up.

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Of Pandas and Pronouns

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Originally published on July 1, 2002

Why do some people go to such great lengths to try to preserve whom?

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