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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.
For instance, I have a very low tolerance for spelling errors and grammatical solecisms in letters of application from those soliciting work: job applicants who are too careless to correct the capitalization of california and the spelling Britian get short shrift, though I am more tolerant of those using presently for now .
Although it is not impossible to find a subjunctive in British writing of today, it is becoming increasingly difficult; indeed, in a book I recently completed for Oxford University Press, virtually all subjunctives were replaced by indicatives (which, because of the solecisms created in American English, occasioned my rewriting of the text to avoid the problem).
The writing is easy to read and colloquial (by which I mean it contains the classic solecisms that purists deride).
They, too, can read and write, of course, but their “solecisms,” “barbarisms,” and “vulgarisms” call for rebuke, and what better rebuke than to treat them as if they did not belong at all—to condemn them figuratively to the outer darkness of the unlettered?
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