alt.usage.english

What's that?

Long story short:

alt.usage.english is a newsgroup where we discuss the English language.

We discuss how particular words, phrases, and syntactic forms are used;
how they originated; and where in the English-speaking world they're
prevalent ("description").

We also discuss how we think they should be used ("prescription").

alt.usage.english is for everyone — not only for linguists, native
speakers or descriptivists.

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Note to the large number of bookofjoe readers whose native language is other than English, and who are interested in improving their skills: five minutes a day spent noodling around alt.usage.english would be an excellent investment of your time.