tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273300.post110997657885439032..comments2023-10-25T00:58:56.337-07:00Comments on Educational Whisper: Stopping the miss use of the Suffix -GateAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175864473859312508noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273300.post-31620339740715302732010-04-28T04:47:55.575-07:002010-04-28T04:47:55.575-07:00Such a captious attitude as you've expressed h...Such a captious attitude as you've expressed here is often a mark of a mediocre grasp of grammatical concepts and language philosophy - an outdated propensity to employ a prescriptive rather than a descriptive grammar. People learn what they think are the 'rules' of grammar, largely propagated by misinformed primary school teachers, and apply them unquestioningly, not knowing that Luke Bagnallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13281524592087134668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273300.post-57816294473752827652008-09-16T04:38:00.000-07:002008-09-16T04:38:00.000-07:00It's just another way to dumb down our society. I...It's just another way to dumb down our society. It's not even a real suffix.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com