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Backlash to ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic’s ‘Word Crimes’ video: English language errors are not ‘mistakes’, apparently.

I consider myself to be more of a ‘descriptivist’ language lover than a downright pedant, but still I remember my horror when, as a trainee teacher many years ago, I was informed that I could not tell children that incorrect English use was ‘wrong’. I had to use the term ‘non-standard’. There is a not-so-subtle [...]