Rob Balder’s Partially Clips shows a stereotypical grammarian in action: Geoff Pullum considered posting the strip on Language Log (Balder is a fan), but decided that that would just “contribute to strengthening the image of grammarians as pettifogging correctness quibblers” (as he said in e-mail). On Balder’s site, he put it this way: I never miss … Continue reading Grammarian stereotype