Comments on: Posting On By Accident http://belletra.com/editor-at-large/posting-on-by-accident/ English Translation from German, Spanish and Catalan; English Editing and Writing Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:29:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Casey http://belletra.com/editor-at-large/posting-on-by-accident/#comment-11 Casey Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:56:38 +0000 http://belletra.com/uncategorized/posting-on-by-accident/#comment-11 Thanks for your comment, Annie. You sound like a dyed-in-the-wool <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_prescription" rel="nofollow">prescriptivist</a>, so I fear you are destined for further disappointment. The nature of language is change; I don't believe that we can define a "real" English language, only to determine what is commonly accepted among certain groups and what is not. That said, I do NOT accept "on accident." I'm an editor: part of the purpose of this blog is to analyze what is currently regularized and what hasn't yet become acceptable. Hence the last paragraph on this post. Thanks for your comment, Annie. You sound like a dyed-in-the-wool prescriptivist, so I fear you are destined for further disappointment. The nature of language is change; I don’t believe that we can define a “real” English language, only to determine what is commonly accepted among certain groups and what is not. That said, I do NOT accept “on accident.”

I’m an editor: part of the purpose of this blog is to analyze what is currently regularized and what hasn’t yet become acceptable. Hence the last paragraph on this post.

]]> By: Annie Glimmerglass http://belletra.com/editor-at-large/posting-on-by-accident/#comment-8 Annie Glimmerglass Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:51:10 +0000 http://belletra.com/uncategorized/posting-on-by-accident/#comment-8 Not a day goes by that I don't hear a newscaster, radio personality (even on NPR) or politician make some grammatical error that makes me fear for the English language. Like real breasts, the "real" English language soon will not be recognized as the real thing. Yikes! Not a day goes by that I don’t hear a newscaster, radio personality (even on NPR) or politician make some grammatical error that makes me fear for the English language. Like real breasts, the “real” English language soon will not be recognized as the real thing. Yikes!

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