Or rather, what used to be? There’s a nice compilation by Lauren Davis at I09 about various things that have been blamed by descriptivists past for messing up English. Now, I think we can all agree the the English tung
shoulde be written unmixt, cleane and pure, and that Shakespeare ruined everything by using metaphors even if English makes no sense whatsoever without them. But some of these complaints seem a bit overblown, if familiar.
What’s Ruining the English Language Now?
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