Monday, August 14, 2023

Anti What?

      Anti What?

 

I’ve occasionally read of an “anti-sex harassment force”. But is that a force that’s against sex harassment, or is it a harassment force that’s against sex? There’s a similar grammatical question about an “anti-voter fraud group”. Is it a group that’s against voter fraud, or is it a fraud group that’s against voters?

I call this “anti-grammatical error speech”; for is it speech that’s against grammatical errors, or is it error speech that’s against grammar?

 

 

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