Linguistic witch hunts are not merely distasteful and often misguided; they sometimes have unintended consequences ranging from corruption of historical records to character assassination.

I am embarrassed to see them taking place in my field.

If you create a foundation whose entire purpose is to find problems with language, that’s exactly what they’re going to do.

Childish people trying to hard to sanitize language.

… all while taking on Coca-Cola and Accenture as partners, you couldn’t make it up.

I can understand where they’re coming from, but the examples given seem particularly… minor?

Not sure if it’s my privilege showing, or the article author chose examples to make this seem goofy.

How is ‘native’ pejorative, or otherwise insensitive? Really