Keeping up the paranoid sense of threat in the world of grammar, style, and usage, and combining errorism as a play on terrorism with the snowclonelet composite X police, in this case the very common grammar police (most recent posting here).
See my Nov. 2006 Language Log post about “the war on error,” as used by Guardian reader’s editor Ian Mayes. (He claimed that “bitterest” wasn’t a correct superlative, so I made the obvious quip about how “the errorists have already won.”)
November 29, 2012 at 8:30 am |
See my Nov. 2006 Language Log post about “the war on error,” as used by Guardian reader’s editor Ian Mayes. (He claimed that “bitterest” wasn’t a correct superlative, so I made the obvious quip about how “the errorists have already won.”)
November 29, 2012 at 9:51 am |
Sorry to have forgotten about this entertaining (and properly angry) piece, on a topic of long interest to me.
December 8, 2012 at 1:14 am |
See also this 2003 album by US punk band NoFX. They’re quite fond of puns, as you can tell from the track listing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_on_Errorism