Rob Drummond on grammar pedantry and peevery - a podcast by Louise Harnby (fiction editor) and Denise Cowle (non-fiction editor)

Denise and Louise talk with linguist Rob Drummond about grammar pedantry, peevery, youth language, and non-standard language in context.
Listen To Find Out More About:Correct or conventional – a linguist’s perspectiveBetter versus standard
Zombie rules, and what we can ditchYouth language – dumbing down English or enriching it?
Young people's language in relation to identity and language change
Varieties of English in written communication: globalization, national and cultural identitiesThe internet’s impact on pedantry and peevery
The relationship between knowledge and pedantryThe difference between preferences and judgements
Recognizing our own pedantry and respecting contextually appropriate styleStepping outside our linguistic comfort zones

Mentioned In The Showhttps://radicalcopyeditor.com/blog/ (Radical Copyeditor blog)'The Business of Being a Writer, with Jane Friedman’
https://www.robdrummond.co.uk/ (Rob Drummond Linguistics)TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/john_mcwhorter_txtng_is_killing_language_jk (John McWhorter: Txtng is killing language. JK!!!)
https://twitter.com/RobDrummond/status/1148330973890785281 (Rob's graph: Linguistic knowledge versus linguistic pedantry)

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https://my.captivate.fm/bit.ly/HarnbyEditing (Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor)Music Credit‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (By Attribution 3.0 License).

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