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Grammar pedants - help please.

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LindsD May 2020 2:03pm, 19 May 2020 36,681 posts	Quote Pin LindsD Me too!
ChrisHB May 2020 2:13pm, 19 May 2020 19,274 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB we grammar pedants just need to make a new rule that AND is a conjunction governing the accusative.
LindsD May 2020 2:28pm, 19 May 2020 36,683 posts	Quote Pin LindsD
GlennR May 2020 2:29pm, 19 May 2020 50,015 posts	Quote Pin GlennR One day we'll remember that English grammar is descriptive, not normative..
LindsD May 2020 2:30pm, 19 May 2020 36,685 posts	Quote Pin LindsD looks for Fetchfork
LindsD May 2020 2:32pm, 19 May 2020 36,686 posts	Quote Pin LindsD Does anyone else have a problem with the term 'social distancing'? I feel like a little piece of me dies every time I hear it. There's nothing 'social' about it. It should be called 'societal distancing' or 'anti-social distancing' or better 'physical distancing' or just 'distancing' or 'safe distancing'. And don't start telling me it's distancing in social settings. I know that. But it just grates, somehow. *a lot of me has died recently
sallykate May 2020 2:34pm, 19 May 2020 6,424 posts	Quote Pin sallykate Physical distancing would be a much better phrase. (And don't get me started on the quite random choice of 2m as the appropriate distance.)
LindsD May 2020 3:05pm, 19 May 2020 36,691 posts	Quote Pin LindsD Indeed.
Dvorak May 2020 3:58pm, 19 May 2020 19,756 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak Yes, Linds. And the application of that two-metre rule.* (Or "one small bear" in Siberia (attentional credit: GlennR). mobile.twitter.com ) * Is that an acceptable "and"?
sallykate May 2020 4:01pm, 19 May 2020 6,427 posts	Quote Pin sallykate In Canada it's the length of a hockey stick.