Here is a rare opportunity to see the globe-trotting Geoff Pullum
deliver a lecture in the Great Northwest. Next Tuesday, February 12 at 6:30. The title of the lecture,
The scandal of English grammar teaching: Ignorance of grammar, damage to writing skills, and what we can do about it
has prompted Geoff to post a
clarification at Language Log:
[ . . . ] although the summary published on the registration page
is entirely accurate, I would still conjecture that as many as half the
people planning to attend will think that the scandal is people who
write bad. They will assume that I will be dinging ordinary folks for
writing (and speaking) ungrammatically. Little will they know what lies
in store: that my target is the grammarians. It is the
rule-givers and knuckle-rappers and nitpickers that I will be
castigating for their ignorance of the content of the principles of
English syntax.
But those of us who know Geoff already knew that.
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