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017: Grammar is Dead; Long Live Grammar
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017: Grammar is Dead; Long Live Grammar

David Foster Wallace, Gretchen McCulloch, & the Oxford Comma Hegemony

Nov 29, 2020
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Whatever else is changing for good or for bad in the world, the continued evolution of language is neither the solution to all our problems, nor the cause of them. It simply is. You never truly step into the same English twice.

—Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet

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