Clinging to God and Grammar

by Carl R. Trueman

The battle over pronouns on social media and in public spaces, as trivial as it seems, is actually of great importance. Continue Reading »

23 Sep 2021 0

Weird Al Just Committed the Greatest Word Crime of All

by Kevin Gallagher

He takes care lest by a slip of the tongue he use the ablative instead of the accusative for ‘among men,’ but is unconcerned that by the fury of his mind he might cast a man out from among men” (Conf. 1.18.29). The particular pet peeves of the self-appointed language police have changed since the fifth century, but St. Augustine would surely recognize the same phenomenon active today. He might conclude, though, that we’ve sunk to a new low: today’s peevers tend not only to lack charity, but to lack even a good grasp of the language they imagine themselves to be defending. Continue Reading »

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