These days the language used to communicate via cell phone and text is so far from the correct English we were taught.
Mona Chalabi argues that those who correct others’ language are clinging to conventions that are unimportant. Grammar snobs are patronising, pretentious and just plain wrong.
“We should spend more time listening to what others have to say, and less focusing on the grammar what they say it with.”
Do you agree?
Vandana Kumar is the Publisher and CEO of India Currents, the leading digital platform for Indian Americans in the United States. As a new immigrant, she co-founded India Currents in 1987, publishing an... More by Vandana Kumar
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