[2006]

riverkid wrote...
1..."No one, that's NO ONE has addressed any of the questions I raised."
2..."How do you know that the prescriptive admonitions accurately reflect how language is used?"

riverkid:
1...Maybe that's because most of your rants, and the links you quote to support them, don't merit a response.
2...I don't think that teaching a language is just declaring that some people somewhere say something so it must be as legitimate as anything else. And the fact that you are considerably outnumbered on this thread should cause you to think that maybe you don't accurately reflect how English is taught/used. In spite of that, you do more preaching than anyone else.