I must say, I find a certain delicious irony in the fact that the commentary on correcting people’s grammar contains a sentence that ends in a preposition. This could just be a typo, but it brings up an important question: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
For those of us who never took Latin, the approximate translation is “Who will watch the watchers?” Who will police the grammar police? Along that same line of thinking, who will police the grammar police police? Or the grammar police police police?
And at what point does this whole exercise become so ridiculous we should just never do it? I say it starts at the grammar police. If you understood what I said, I said it correctly. It does not matter if I used ain’t, y’all, or like, totally. If my message was conveyed correctly, I said it correctly. And until our language is far better defined and inflexible (Newspeak comes to mind) then the grammar police are doing nothing more than nitpicking.
Let my pronouns go!
Nicholas Read
Mathematics senior