Yes, I know I've linked to him before...

... but dammit, Fred deserves a wider audience, primarily because he agrees with me. (I guess I really agree with him, since he's older, and probably came to these conclusions before I did, but I'm thinking of his writing like a meal; it agrees with me.)

Of the standards of earlier times, only a blisterish sensitivity remains. To correct anyone's English is to provoke fury and cries of “Elitism!” this being generally conceived as worse than pederasty or shoplifting.