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why grammar and other language minutiae matter
Sometimes people roll their eyes and get annoyed with those of us who persist in preserving a difference between its and it's, lay and lie, imply and infer, breath and breathe, loose and lose, and so on (take all the rest as read, please; there's no need to try to provide an exhaustive list), or who insist that there really should be a place in the world for the serial comma (and that place is not just Oxford), or who know and try to persuade others that, for example, none and any are both singular, no, really.
This morning one of the op-eds in the Washington Post is (surprise, surprise) about health care. "Obamacare Won't Work", says the headline, and then, along with the writer's name, the subhead says, "If you're already insured, the plan is bad news."
And without even reading the piece, I am furious, and it's only because I probably won't actually read it at all that I'm not charging in to post a comment there (not that I couldn't, but one tries not to be That Guy) noting what a number of people have been saying for ages: sometimes it's not what's best for each of us that is most important, but what is best for all of us.
Tell me a good grasp of pronouns doesn't matter. Harumph.
This morning one of the op-eds in the Washington Post is (surprise, surprise) about health care. "Obamacare Won't Work", says the headline, and then, along with the writer's name, the subhead says, "If you're already insured, the plan is bad news."
And without even reading the piece, I am furious, and it's only because I probably won't actually read it at all that I'm not charging in to post a comment there (not that I couldn't, but one tries not to be That Guy) noting what a number of people have been saying for ages: sometimes it's not what's best for each of us that is most important, but what is best for all of us.
Tell me a good grasp of pronouns doesn't matter. Harumph.