50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education via kwout
Being habitually guilty of breaking the established grammatical rules of Strunk & White I found Geoffery Pullum’s argument against this tome of Academia very refreshing. In the Chronicle Review post, Pullum offers several examples of where Strunk & White are not just wrong but don’t even follow their own advice.
More importantly Pullum points out that the grammatical angst that may of us feel as a result of using what he calls on over-opinionated and under-informed little book is not warranted. Rather he encourages us to recognize:
English syntax is a deep and interesting subject. It is much too important to be reduced to a bunch of trivial don’t-do-this prescriptions by a pair of idiosyncratic bumblers who can’t even tell when they’ve broken their own misbegotten rules.
Thank you Geoffery!
