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Is the Queen's English amongst them?
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*rimshot*
Or predictable prescriptivist whining. He didn't specify which Queen's English he thought should be preserved, or why. Is EIIR's English better than ER's, or VR's, or even AR's?
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Or even Queen Lili'uokalani.
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It is a little-known fact that the members of this board are divided up into committees by Anu, each in charge of a particular facet of our community life. As the chair of the Committee on Predictable Prescriptivist Whining, I make every effort to faithfully discharge the duties of my office.
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And as chairman of the Committee on Knee-Jerk Descriptivist Over-reaction it is my job to defend even the most egregious examples of attempts to sabotage the Integrity of the Language.
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and as long as we're opening up in this unscharacteristic fashion, I am the Temporary Subaldermanic-underchairman of the Title XXXVII Abscondent Subcommittee for the Preservation of Obsolete and Archaic Glossomachical Verbiage; first meeting pending.
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Faldage sez: it is my job to defend even the most egregious examples of attempts to sabotage the Integrity of the Language.
And the chair of PPW replies: and you make every effort to faithfully discharge the duties of (your) office.
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to faithfully discharge
Since when do prescriptivists split infinitives, good sir?
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