You know you’re a language nerd when you have a strong opinion about serial commas. – Author unknown

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. – E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

Linguists are no different from any other people who spend more than nineteen hours a day pondering the complexities of grammar and its relationship to practically everything else in order to prove that language is so inordinately complicated that it is impossible in principle for people to talk. – Ronald W. Langacker (b.1942), Language and Its Structure, 1973

This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put. – Attributed to Winston Churchill, rejecting the rule against ending a sentence wi