[ottbmare]

So, we could have a form of OCD. We could have grammar pedantry syndrome or oppositional defiant disorder.

Or we could just be conservative traditionalists who hate to see this rich, beautiful, powerful language and the culture it represents consistently degraded by the victims of the government school system. We could see the erosion of literacy as symptomatic of a general decay in society and a loss of respect for the values of the past. We could just think these researchers are morons.

[Gabz]

Or we could just be conservative traditionalists who hate to see this rich, beautiful, powerful language and the culture it represents consistently degraded by the victims of the government school system.

I am a product of Catholic schools and have a reasonably decent command of the language - but it will invariably be my 14 year old daughter who will catch my occasional errors....and she is one of your so called "victims."

[Madame Dufarge]

I believe you've got it exactly right.

For crying out loud, there's a correct way to build a set of stairs and a correct way to construct a sentence and spell a word.

Why should the former be generally accepted as a universal truth and the latter be considered a mental disorder?