This article on MSNBC perturbed me. Apparently, all us Grammar Snobs/Nazis/Police need to chill the f ck out and gawd, get a life.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28900351/
According to this article, if you encourage use of proper English, you are:
- controlling and on a power trip.
- a perfectionist.
- overeager to please authoritative figures from childhood, such as parents and teachers.
- mean and uptight.
- condescending.
- overstressed.
- misplacing anger from a poor economy and a president who used words like "nucular" and asked, "Is our children learning?"
- possibly zealous.
- snobbish.
- assigning blame through "attribution theory." [see article for explanation of this term.]
- obsessive/anal-retentive.
- dehumanizing (according to a comment linked in the article.)
- in need of a life (also according to numerous comments linked.)
Also, notice the graphic up top. That grammar snob looks awfully dowdy.
... ... I think this article is absurd.
Metastes a bitter agenda in the tone and content. It seems to me that everything in this article is incredibly--almost laughably--biased in favor of the widespread lackadaisical attitude regarding knowledge, written/spoken communication and impressions made upon others. This article, for the lack of a better word, demonizes those who pay attention to language. Apparently, we're just cruel, priggish, egotistical control freaks who enjoy condescension under the delusion of our superiority.
As writers, how do you feel about this?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28900351/
According to this article, if you encourage use of proper English, you are:
- controlling and on a power trip.
- a perfectionist.
- overeager to please authoritative figures from childhood, such as parents and teachers.
- mean and uptight.
- condescending.
- overstressed.
- misplacing anger from a poor economy and a president who used words like "nucular" and asked, "Is our children learning?"
- possibly zealous.
- snobbish.
- assigning blame through "attribution theory." [see article for explanation of this term.]
- obsessive/anal-retentive.
- dehumanizing (according to a comment linked in the article.)
- in need of a life (also according to numerous comments linked.)
Also, notice the graphic up top. That grammar snob looks awfully dowdy.
... ... I think this article is absurd.
Metastes a bitter agenda in the tone and content. It seems to me that everything in this article is incredibly--almost laughably--biased in favor of the widespread lackadaisical attitude regarding knowledge, written/spoken communication and impressions made upon others. This article, for the lack of a better word, demonizes those who pay attention to language. Apparently, we're just cruel, priggish, egotistical control freaks who enjoy condescension under the delusion of our superiority.
As writers, how do you feel about this?