Psycho Babble
A blog about language with posts each Thursday by Jessica Love, a postdoctoral fellow in the department of psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her article about pronouns, “They Get to Me,” appeared in our Spring 2010 issue.
Rules Versus Rules: What The New Yorker Got Wrong - May 17, 2012
The old brouhaha between prescriptivists (interested in dictating how languageshould be) and descriptivists (interested in documenting what it is) continues to simmer.
Previous posts
- Rules Versus Rules: What The New Yorker Got Wrong
- Extreme Empathy
- Does Language Change How We Experience Color?
- These Thoughts Were Made in American English
- Nounsy Nouns and Verbsy Verbs and Little Wugs Eat Ivy
- Golfers, Toothpaste, and How Not to Overthink
- Is the Future of English Bad Science?
- Calling All Psychonarratologists
- The Mind Paused / Not at All
- On Caddy-corner ... Or Whatever That Word Is
- Oprah: 2, Attenborough: 0
- What Prestige Sounds Like
- Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sentence
- Should Two Constructions Diverge
- Submissive Sentences
- isthistytelhardtoreed
- What Actually Works
- When Words Are Neighbors
- Spelling and the Mind
- When Rosemary Should Be Rosy and Merry
- When Characters Speak Off the Page
- And I’m Like, Read This!
- The Grammarian Was a He
- The Spaghetti with a Dark Past
- A Cocktail Conundrum
- Nullified
- The Magazine Ran with Ink and Columns
- The Accented Among Us
- If It Talks Like the Truth
- Speech in Action
- Nailing It
- Aliens in the Mind
- The Lion, the Yurt, and the Xbox
- The Elephant in the Room
- Parse This
- Tyler Is Setting Up a Tent
- When the Upshot Is a Downer
- This Column Needs Edited
