Love this video about language, linguistic prescriptivists and descriptivists, and why it’s okay to bend the rules.
I’m a big rule-follower, especially when it comes to language. (I’ve gotten a major thrill from referencing specific sections in the Chicago Manual of Style in non-writing work conversations.) But communication is more than a set of rules–each situation has its own flow and language is a living entity that evolves with time.
So maybe let it go the next time someone uses “me” instead of “I” when telling you about their day. That doesn’t mean you don’t respect language–it just means you respect communication.
An art which is on the death bad, thanks to the evolution of e-Mojis and sms texting.
Sorry, please read ‘bed’.
Yet once they find out you’re an English teacher, whoa if you make a mistake.