Books
Last week, The Baltimore Sun’s book blogger Dave Rosenthal proclaimed the ’00s “the Stephenie Meyer decade” — a move destined to manufacture heated debates and, naturally, more traffic to the paper’s site. His post predictably stirred the passions of 15-year-old gi… er, 32-year-old women, who finally found a national cause they could rally behind. (Sorry, [...]
Continue reading about Stephenie Meyer, Twilight and the Very Bleak Future of Culture
First off, a disclaimer: I’m a language snob. I may use a wide variety of frowned-upon slang, obscure localisms and creatively-worded profanity, but I also know the difference between a complete sentence and a formless vomiting-up of consonants.
If only that were the norm.
Over the past decade, society’s general appreciation of language has taken a turn [...]
