Right versus pragmatic
This article reminds me quite a bit of linguistic prescriptivism and descriptivism.<p>Many people like to pretend that there's some platonic, <i>right</i> form of language. Splitting an infinitive is wrong, ending a clause with a preposition is wrong, using pronouns in the accusative case as a subject (“Me and her do this”) or a predicate nominative (“It's me”) is wrong. This attitude reflects the same stubborn insistence on being right instead of pragmatic. The reality is that language changes over time and is defined by usage, so Those arguing that a common usage is incorrect are wrong by definition.