"it is possible to teach standard written English and also to question the peeves and shibboleths of the grammar Nazis.” There is no “dirty little secret” here, because there is no conflict between the mission of describing language as it actually is used (rather than how prescriptivist might want it to be) and adhering to the stylistic standards that mark a register as appropriate for a situation"
— Language Log » The New Yorker vs. the descriptivist specter (via nouswork)
(via lesserjoke)
