In the World of Linguistic Peevery

In the world of linguistic peevery, there are several levels of hell.

[Arnold Zwicky, "Prejudices, egocentrism, impositions, and intransigence", Language Log, 21 April 2009.]

I don't really feel the need to explain, beyond saying that I found the sentence great fun to read and I thought I'd like to read it again sometime.

Posted on April 21, 2009 at 22.11 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Common-Place Book, Such Language!

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