NetPost - Lucas Darby (Fenris)
Why did I ever make any of the English faculty my Facebook friends? For every one of them who's an interesting, well-read, thoughtful, empathetic person, there's another who's a crusty old Ivory Tower academic who hasn't revised his curriculum since Paradise Lost was written and wants to proudly call himself a "grammar nazi." Every time another meme pops up that comes down to "you damn kids get off my language lawn," they share it, and it makes me want to go extra rounds at the boxing gym.
I've tried to explain prestige dialects and the evolution of language and the evolution of teaching language until I'm blue in the face, but do they listen? Do they even pretend to listen? No, they just start yapping about "the real world" like they've ever even lived in it.
Pro tip: Correcting someone else's spoken usage of language (unless they're your child or they've asked you to) says a lot more about the person doing the correcting than it does about the person being corrected.