indessed roscivs

I discovered a delightfully prescriptivist web site the other day, called barelybad.com. In characteristically prescriptivist fashion, the site rails against such incorrect usages as “downhill from here,” or phrases such as, “noticed a suspicious parcel,” and terrible atrocities like, “green salad is part of a healthy meal” or “a nominal fee”.

The author continually says such hilariously stereotypically prescriptivist things as,

Yes, this is another one of those distinctions in which I don’t care what the dictionary says, because I’m right.

and

Losing a special, useful vocabulary word to misuse is never desirable.

Take a peek. Even the most prescriptivist among you might find something to chuckle at.

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