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Ignoring the author's use of the e-word, I must say I agree with the main sentiment expressed: that mistakes in spelling and punctuation are wrongly called grammatical errors by too many prescriptivists.


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that mistakes in spelling and punctuation are wrongly called grammatical errors by too many prescriptivists.

It is a strange conceit and just part of the casually smug ignorance of what grammar really is that keeps some folks agitated and highly strung.


Ceci n'est pas un seing.
 
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