Who wins in the end, grammarian or errorist?
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A supervillain showdown.
Selected readings
- *The Chicago Manual of Style — and grammar" (2/2/05)
- "An HR bureaucrat, whom cannot write" (4/21/10)
- "A "dumb copy editor" story from George Lakoff" (7/7/09)
- "Searching 43 stylebooks" (5/10/10)
[Thanks to Laura Morland and Gene Hill]
DCBob said,
November 21, 2024 @ 3:02 pm
If you doubt Grammarian even for a second, the Errorist has alrady won!
Julian said,
November 21, 2024 @ 5:20 pm
I commend the first linked post (2 Feb 2005), comment on the Chicago manual's grammar supplement, written by an eminent grammarian whose identity is not hard to guess from the style long before you get to the fold.
Near the bottom of that article there's a link to a brilliant post by Mark Liberman, on grammar in the SAT test (31 Jan 2005), which is very relevant to this post and I think should be carved in stone.