Can't remember the last time I was crept out. The linguistics fight has been going on for ages! I'm sure the critics of the time panned Shakespeare for his spelling.

When he must, my linguistics-prof friend tends to fall a bit more on the descriptive rather than prescriptive side. But he tries to stay out of the fight.

He did have fun putting together "Language, Ethnicity, and Inequality in HBO's The Wire" as an honors course, though.

-jk