Decades before the rise of social media, polarisation plagued discussions about language. By and large, it still does. Everyone who cares about the topic is officially required to take one of two ...

I’m not much of a language stickler. I roll my eyes when people argue over the Oxford comma, and I couldn’t care less when someone says they “could care less.” As a descriptivist (rather than a ...

ARE you a prescriptivist or a descriptivist? It’s getting to be an increasingly important issue in online discourse. John Griffiths. What the hell am I talking about? Linguistic prescription is the ...