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As an English teacher and a linguist, and a writer, I've been advocating writing as good mental exercise for as long as I can remember.
I can anticipate a letter from the descendants of the American linguist George Philip Krapp enjoining me from using the word that sounds like his name on pain of a suit for slander.)
Putting outright, downright grammatical solecisms aside, it would be pertinent to reiterate my own attitude toward usage: as a linguist, I regard usage clinically and would no more criticize a writer or a speaker of any kind of English for “mistakes” than a doctor would criticize a patient for contracting appendicitis or the Malay waste-away; on the other hand, as a writer (albeit a poor one), I attend to matters of style (which includes usage and grammar, of course), not only in others' writing but my own.
As for the Margalit Fox article you mention, I did read it and found it an interesting summary of what we might call "the linguist's dilemma": People want linguists to tell them how to be correct, but at the same time, they resist intervention, taking the attitude, "Who are you to tell me what to do?"
Casanova was a highly intelligent man and a competent linguist.