To all you feckin’ language morons out there. Yes, I’m talkin’ to YOU.
Although utterly ignorant of anything remotely resembling the linguistic science behind language standards, you rant, bubble and witter yourselves into a pointless froth when exposed to the most innocuous and perfectly standard regional differences in spelling, pronunciation, grammar usage, what have you.
My instructions to you are as follows:
1. Pull your collective head out of your ass/arse.
2. Look up “prescriptivism”, maybe on en.wikipedia.org (if the idea of looking something up on that website doesn’t send you into further paroxysms).
3. Get a hobby - specifically, a hobby other than working yourself up into a fury over things about which you know nothing. How about …oh, I don’t know…crochet, or masturbation, or fox hunting?
With all due respect (i.e. none),
Anonymous And Fed Up
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First, it’s obvious this issue bothers you and I applaud you for bringing it forth (it bothers me as well). But I don’t think using the language you did is going to make people receptive to the idea or do any self-reflecting.
Second, learn to accept it, even if it bothers you to no end. I think we’re only going to have an impact on a (comparatively) very small group of people in our lives and to focus on that, as your influence may (I hope) spread to their social groups as well.
Consider that sometimes it’s just people being anal and sometimes it’s because the interpretation of a phrase could change (sometimes both), depending on their social influences or just their own stupidity.
My advice to you: relax, but don’t give up hope.
DY on January 12th, 2010 at 6:58 pm | Link