http://www.plain-text.co.uk/save-our-language-from-the-queens-english-society Copywriting that means business Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:18:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.plain-text.co.uk/save-our-language-from-the-queens-english-society/comment-page-1#comment-53 007 parachutes into pointless language struggle Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:29:49 +0000 http://www.plain-text.co.uk/?p=534#comment-53 [...] spit it out!) and that “proper English is disappearing”, Moore joins the ludicrous Queens English Society in pining for a very narrow,  personal ideal of what language should [...] [...] spit it out!) and that “proper English is disappearing”, Moore joins the ludicrous Queens English Society in pining for a very narrow,  personal ideal of what language should [...]

]]> http://www.plain-text.co.uk/save-our-language-from-the-queens-english-society/comment-page-1#comment-51 The Queen’s English Society deplores your impurities « Sentence first Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:58:33 +0000 http://www.plain-text.co.uk/?p=534#comment-51 [...] Unsurprisingly, the QES’s claim to greater authority has been received less than enthusiastically. As well as the posts by Linguism and Macmillan Dictionary to which I linked above, John E. McIntyre has been blogging up a storm about it, imagining the absurdity of the academy’s meeting, showing how “language goes where it will and is what its users make of it”, and wondering about the “brittle veneer” of moral superiority that traditionally accompanies language snobbery. Elsewhere, Inky Fool takes the Academy to task over their inaugural press release, and Plain Text wants to save English from the QES. [...] [...] Unsurprisingly, the QES’s claim to greater authority has been received less than enthusiastically. As well as the posts by Linguism and Macmillan Dictionary to which I linked above, John E. McIntyre has been blogging up a storm about it, imagining the absurdity of the academy’s meeting, showing how “language goes where it will and is what its users make of it”, and wondering about the “brittle veneer” of moral superiority that traditionally accompanies language snobbery. Elsewhere, Inky Fool takes the Academy to task over their inaugural press release, and Plain Text wants to save English from the QES. [...]

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