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.

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