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I've read (not skimmed) the article. Agreed, a fair comment.
The Society can retire.
I'm no prescrivist as long as I can understand what's written. I definitely do think our young ones today are not well instructed in the usage of written language. Could be there is no other way. We too have large amounts of immigrants. I have a son who came into my household at the age of 5 speaking only lingala, the river dialect in Congo. His way into learning Dutch was very interesting, but I'm glad we talk and he doesn't need to write me letters.
Back to QES:
Even in Mr.Pullum's carefull comments I've found a sentence that confused me because it did not read well:
"It's extraordinarily bad when judged by the sort of standards that one might expect an organization of educated professional people devoted to the protection of Standard English and education in its use."
I've had to read it twice and suspect he forgot 'of' before 'an organisation'. No big deal but it hinders the train of thought while reading.
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