blogged find better blogs
Submit a BlogSignUpLoginBlog DirectoryOld Home
HomeTechnologyEntertainmentSportsPoliticsBusinessHumorWorld NewsLifestyleDirectoryMore Topics

submit a blog
Blog Detail
Motivated Grammar

Prescriptivism Must Die!
Motivated Grammar Blog  
Listed in: Languages > English
Related Topics:
Author: Gabe D.
More from Author: A lot of people make claims about what "good English" is. Much of what they say is flim-flam, and this blog aims to set the record straight. Its goal is to explain the motivations behind the real grammar of English and to debunk ill-founded claims about what is grammatical and what isn't.
Visit this blog on Facebook for more info.
Tags: adverbs affixes agreement ambiguity apostrophes disagreements editing english errors grammar history
Related Blogs
previous blog next blog

6 Users are Following
8.1
great
based on editor's review
review this blog


recent postsrss feed

Book Review: I love "Origins of the Specious"

Nov 10, 2009
I am unabashedly in love with “Origins of the Specious”. It’s got a clever title, alluding to that controversially correct tome of Darwin’s, an homage to a field of study with even more ill-informed cranks than grammar. More importantly, it’s a...

The real difference between "between" and "among"

Nov 3, 2009
I apologize for not posting much recently, but I’ve been bogged down with being a grad student — submitting a paper, setting up a self-paced reading study, and moving apartments. But in the course of compiling that paper, I skimmed through an article...

Whoever v. Whomever! Cases collide! Match of the Century!

Oct 13, 2009
Sometimes I worry that I’m not properly using this blog as a chance to get the word out about linguistics, so to rest my troubled mind, let’s talk a little about a component of syntactic theory: case. (Please stop clicking on the nearest link in an...

You and myself

Oct 1, 2009
Once again, I’ve got a question for you dear readers.  As I so regularly do in my spare time instead of cultivating rewarding interpersonal relationships, I was reading a piece on grammatical/punctuation errors, by Toni Bowers.  Of course, being...

So it's National Punctuation Day again

Sep 24, 2009
The orbit of the Earth being what it is, September 24th has come around again.  September 24th, for those of you who don’t have a copy of Chase’s Calendar of Events lying around, is National Punctuation Day.  But can I be honest with you?  I just...
Comments & Reviews:
Be the First to Review this Blog!

© 2009 Blogged.com. All rights reserved. About Us | FAQ | Blog | Twitter | Press | Privacy Policy | Terms and Conditions