Autocorrect: making Twitter pedants delete and re-tweet since 2007.

Language guardians have often blamed linguists as defenders of bad language: moral and cultural relativism is often tossed in at no extra charge. We as a profession are supposedly promoting the idea that anything goes...

Laments for a dying language”:Coin brassy words at will, debase the coinage;We’re in an if-you-cannot-lick-them-join age, A slovenliness-provides-its-own-excuse age, Where usage overnight condones misusage. Farewell, farewell to my beloved language,Once English, now a vile orangutanguage.

Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach; those who can’t teach, police grammar on the Internet.