Who cares what people say about prescriptive grammar. Grammar and punctuation nitpicking was the privilege of a time when people knew how to write. There are better ways to spend your time. And since when is the Microsoft Word “green squiggle” the authority on language use?
Which at the beginning of a restrictive relative clause has never at any time in history been a grammatical error in Standard English…and company time spent chasing down whiches might as well be devoted to hunting witches.
Descriptivists: 1
Prescriptivists: 0
5 responses so far ↓
1 alejna // Apr 1, 2007 at 3:47 pm
That is great. Screw that green squiggle. It’s pissed me off before to with its silly “which hunt.”
And you know, I’m starting to realize that there may be a reason I haven’t made much progress getting that pig to sing. I mean, once it learned “Mary had a little lamb,” it pretty much plateaued.
Hmm. Plateaued. That’s a whole lot of consecutive vowels. Which reminds me of a cafe press t-shirt I saw. Fck vwls.
2 jeanerz // Apr 1, 2007 at 4:18 pm
I need to own the fck vwls shirt. I also need to own the shirt that says “this is a wug”: http://www.cafepress.com/wugstore
3 jeanerz // Apr 1, 2007 at 4:22 pm
and as for the green squiggle, after writing a thesis about passive constructions, I’m just waiting for an opportunity to write a paper whose title can be: “Passive voice, consider revising”.
4 Jangari // Apr 9, 2007 at 2:09 am
‘”Sentence Fragment” is also a sentence fragment!’
5 Jangari // Apr 9, 2007 at 2:09 am
Pick the quote, anyone?
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