Recent content by caribbeanscot

Yeah, I disagree with the use of "spelling Nazi" or "grammar Nazi," just on the basis of it being lazy cliché. That said, just saying "people that don't use correct grammar are idiots," or just correcting the OP, proves his or her point just as much. It shows that the person on the other end is...

And you might want to read your own stuff ? I don't think you meant a "batter grasp" of English. If you're going to be this exacting with other people's language, you have to watch your own. Bad grammar isn't "bad manners" or "inconsideration." (It might certainly be laziness.) It's bad...

Well, I admit I'm heavily biased. My field of study is Roman sexual invective (or, as I like to call it, "what does it mean to threaten to fuck someone in the ass in Latin?") so I get to write things most people can't get away with. There is a reason I picked classics. But one thing I forgot...

I'm a linguist by training, so this entire thread is catnip to me. I'll come back to the point above in a sec. Whoever posted the Stephen Fry kinetic typography got one main point right. Language, like any human institution, has a social aspect, and in fields like academics, business, or...