> And now, Weird Al has some words A linguist had some words in response[0] > While "grammar nerds" are psyched about Weird Al's new "Word Crimes" video, many

> And now, Weird Al has some words A linguist had some words in response[0] > While "grammar nerds" are psyched about Weird Al's new "Word Crimes" video, many linguists are shaking their heads and feeling a little hopeless about what the public enthusiasm about it represents: a society where largely trivial, largely arbitrary standards of linguistic correctness are heavily privileged, and people feel justified in degrading and attacking those who don't do things the "correct" way. I know who I'm trusting to speak confidently about language usage. [0] https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=13521 https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=13521