A very notable quote *Smirk*

So I say outpedant the pedants, and allow yourself to gluttonously revel in the linguistic improprieties of yore as you familiarize yourself with the nearly unique enormity of the gloriously mistaken heritage that our literature is comprised of. For those of you keeping score at home, that last sentence contained a verbal noun, a split infinitive, an improper -ize, an inflectional comparative, a blatantly misleading word choice, at least one example of catachresis, an unnecessarily passive construction — and it ended with a preposition. All of which I’m willing to bet appear in Shakespeare.

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Ammon Shea

[On Language - Defending Against Language Pedants - NYTimes.com]

Thanks for the fun: ambivalence - So I say outpedant the pedants, and allow yourself...

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