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There are two spectres haunting grammar: the Stiff-upper-lipped Guardians of Language and the Deseussical Paronomastic Neologists, neither of whom is right or wrong. I don't have a problem with prescriptive grammarians because they trying to prop up the exquisite linguistic corpse and guard it against the incoming verbal huns of hugger-mugger. Grammatical correctness is a laudable state to be in. What I object to is their ad hoc arguments, sleight of handwaving, and shrill appeals to "logic". Having said that: everybody is wrong, i.e., the linguist trendy wannabes and the aged humument curmudgeons.
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