Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
Here's a stirring Boston Globe op-ed from master lexicographer Erin McKean, presenting the humane case for a dynamic English language in which speakers are allowed to coin neologisms and new usages without grammar tightasses insisting that language is not a user-modifiable technology . Whenever I see "not a real word" used to stigmatize what is (usually) a perfectly cromulent word, I readmore
