Hmm …

… Writers gonna write | On the BuzzFeed guide to style. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Those kids who, thirty years ago, irked adults by saying “like” all the time are today saying “like” at board meetings, on national broadcasts, and to their own teenagers.

And they still sound like they don't quite know what's on their minds.

What Favilla circles around is a striking proposal: eliminate formal English. If professional writing should read like an online message, and messaging is akin to conversation, there’s only one register. “Repeat after me”, she commands. “If we speak that way, it’s okay to write that way.”

Maybe she should get a job like one I once had: Editing transcripts. Those would be exact records of what people said. None of those people would have wanted them published unedited. God forbid that people take the trouble to learn something.

As for Evans, his reference to "climate-change deniers" along suggests he just wants people to agree with policies he favors. I'd like him to find someone who actually thinks that climate does not change (as opposed to thinking it doesn't change in his preferred direction).