Ok, So can you correct my culture so half my flaskling stop dying, or
are you suggesting that I take up reading Nero Wolfe (a very good
author) to ease my anxiety
over their death, other than that correct my diction all you want, as I
find debate about the realities of a living language an interesting
debate, even though I personally despise the whole english language

Jack

wrote:
Al wrote:

This reminds me of my favorite exchange from one of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe
novels. In it Wolfe had maneuvered one of his suspects into the red chair
and was making him nuts with his erudite pedantic style of interrogatory
interlocution until the man simply could not take it any more. He said, "I
came here to find out what you've done with my wife, not to have my grammar
corrected!" To which Wolfe dryly replied, "I'm not correcting your grammar.
I'm correcting your diction."

Good old Nero, a model of correctness.

J. Del Col