I have some thoughts about prescriptive viewpoints on culture vs descriptive. As with the grammarwars, my take is that there is healthy and appropriate room for both.
December 3, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I have some thoughts about prescriptive viewpoints on culture vs descriptive. As with the grammarwars, my take is that there is healthy and appropriate room for both.
Currently being sucked into a Reddit argument about the #OxfordComma.
Impatiently waiting for someone to invent the tech that lets me boot other people off the internet for being wrong.
#GrammarWars
Impatiently waiting for someone to invent the tech that lets me boot other people off the internet for being wrong.
#GrammarWars
November 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Currently being sucked into a Reddit argument about the #OxfordComma.
Impatiently waiting for someone to invent the tech that lets me boot other people off the internet for being wrong.
#GrammarWars
Impatiently waiting for someone to invent the tech that lets me boot other people off the internet for being wrong.
#GrammarWars
Don’t be a pettifogger! ⚖️ This old-school word describes someone who argues over unimportant details—like debating whether to use an em dash or an en dash (okay, guilty! 😅). What’s a tiny writing rule you’ll defend forever? #Pettifogger #GrammarWars #EditingHumor #DesertMysticEditing
July 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Don’t be a pettifogger! ⚖️ This old-school word describes someone who argues over unimportant details—like debating whether to use an em dash or an en dash (okay, guilty! 😅). What’s a tiny writing rule you’ll defend forever? #Pettifogger #GrammarWars #EditingHumor #DesertMysticEditing
December 17, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Y'all...communication is the purpose of writing AND speaking. The rest is just dress code. #descriptionailism #grammarwars #illfightaboutanoxfordcommathough🍎
Anyway.........
No one gets everything right, and people shouldn't be hard on themselves (as I frequently see) because grammar stymies them and they can't diagram a sentence. (I can't diagram a sentence.)
Do your best and, if you care to, try to do better.
The rest is commentary.
No one gets everything right, and people shouldn't be hard on themselves (as I frequently see) because grammar stymies them and they can't diagram a sentence. (I can't diagram a sentence.)
Do your best and, if you care to, try to do better.
The rest is commentary.
Here's a thing you should know:
I've been working with extremely adept writers, many of them positively dripping in prizes, for decades, and they don't always get punctuation right, and they don't always know what nonplussed means, and they can't always tell the difference between lead and led.
I've been working with extremely adept writers, many of them positively dripping in prizes, for decades, and they don't always get punctuation right, and they don't always know what nonplussed means, and they can't always tell the difference between lead and led.
December 15, 2024 at 4:08 AM
Y'all...communication is the purpose of writing AND speaking. The rest is just dress code. #descriptionailism #grammarwars #illfightaboutanoxfordcommathough🍎