In Utne’s Web Watch: Going Nuclear over Nucular
“Criticize Bush’s polices, sure,” writes Andy Lamey in the Canadian newspaper National Post, “but don’t bash his pronunciation.” Lamey, himself a former “language bully,” posits that since Bush took office, it’s increasingly popular to take a jab at his grammar, and that “grammatical correctness has become political correctness.” He says prescriptivism — as language bullying is more formally called — goes too far when it creates a right-and-wrong mentality.
Well, this would be me… a prescriptivist, as my family would attest. Time to give up being a bully.