........ told and told and told that something (s)he is doing is annoying (or worse), and has been asked and asked and asked to stop--and keeps on doing it anyway.
*****Alas Jackie I myself have repeatedly been so accused but after a couple decades at this sort of thing have concluded that somebody somewhere will object to almost anything not hewing precisely to protocol or custom. For instance, one fellow inveighs against my use of ******* to distinguish my reply while another says he doesn't mind at all but is all tied up in knots and experiencing stomach-twisting anguish where I don't use a dot to end a para
...somewhat deliniating the difference in reaction between the prescriptvist and the de-. I in fact had considered myself a pre-, suffering some distress for instance at the use of "drive" to describe a rom or a garage; or "venue" to mean causation. However why bother I finally decided, whereupon I turned in my credentials for those of a de-
Although I occasionally feign a pre- in order to provoke controversy, I am really a bad person
