Today’s Rhymes With Orange:
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).
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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