Stephen Fry - writer, actor, author and lover of language - takes on language pedants in this neat little animation. It uses "kinetic typography" (animated words and stuff) and has been put together by Matt Rogers.
There's also some discussion of Fry's views here from Russell Smith in Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail..
Worth a look if you're revising Language Discourses on ENGA3.
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