Breakfast Topic: Are you a Trade Chat grammar narc?

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12-13-2008 @ 9:05AM

David Kotsonis said...

It actually depends. When I'm talking with people whose intelligence I respect and whom I trust to know what I'm talking about, I say scribe. When I'm dealing with people I don't know, I tend to say "inscriptionist" or "inscriber" because I want to be absolutely sure that they know what I'm talking about. It makes me grimace down to my English-minor marrow, but it's a necessary evil. Language's role is to facilitate communication, not to impede it.

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