BTWR (540147) wrote:
Ahhh! You ended a sentence with a preposition!
Anality (to the pedants out there in Slashdotland, obsessive-compulsive personality) is a very important quality to possess. Consider that the
New York Times has included articles about Supreme Court candidates Roberts and Alito, mentioning their conservatism and characteristic anality.
On the other hand, you have these rebel but admittedly cunning linguists who vouch that language is as we use it. In their fog of grammatical relativism, a split infinitive is just as good as an unsplit one (and, presumably, split undies are equals to the uncleft variety); slang is how the vocabulary of a language evolves; and they say worse while calling it all science! No, thanks. I'll side with the prescriptivist grammarians like my good friend BTWR and scan all my writing for misplaced commas and make sure I am using my words with etymologically correct connotations. Plus, renowned cunning linguist Noam Chomsky is a damned hippi.
In short,
back off from His Royal Anus!
07 Nov 2005, 10:03 pm
