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Originally Posted by roachboy
i find grammar and vocabulary "peeves" to be irritating.
i dont see the point of collecting them.
to my mind, an emphasis on correctness is fundamentally an emphasis on deference.
deference is not interesting.
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It does remind me a little of
L'Académie française attempting to control the content of the French language on a smaller scale (to which I contribute above).
Collecting "peeves" may not be that interesting, but I do think that it is interesting to think about why people find "violations" of grammar annoying. To that end, my militate/mitigate issue may be more about someone attempting to control my language usage than anything else. Why do people have language "peeves"? I'm sure there are a myriad reasons.
Why isn't deference interesting?