The New Yorker Gins Up The Old Prescriptivist-vs.-Descriptivist Language Battle (Again)

“Nature or nurture. Love it or leave it. If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit. If you didn’t already know that euphonious dichotomies are usually phony dichotomies, you need only check out the latest round” in the bogus usage wars – revived beginning last month in the famously fussy magazine (to much bemusement on the language geek blogs).