Re: Not P but Steven Pinker's “Grammar Puss”

[Neal Fultz]

It's online - https://newrepublic.com/article/77732/grammar-puss-steven-pinker-language-william-safire

Not sure if headlines at TNR are chosen by authors or the editors,
"Puss" only is in the headline.

On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 9:19 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From DFW's "Authority and American Usage":
>
> p. 75–76 “Once introduced, a prescriptive . . .” = Steven Pinker, “Grammar
> Puss” (excerpted from ch. 12 of Pinker’s book The Language Instinct,
> Morrow, 1994), which appeared in the New Republic on 31 Jan. ’94 (p. 20).
> Some of the subsequent Pinker quotations are from the NR excerpt because
> they tend to be more compact.
>
> What's the meaning of the title "Grammar Puss"?
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