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Writers are the protectors of language, even as we are also the innovators. We’re supposed to coin new words when they’re useful, and even invent new usages and new twists to old rules.
But we are also supposed to polish the tools we were given by those who wrote and spoke before us, and not leave them out to rust merely because we’re too lazy and careless to learn how to take care of them properly.
— Quotes, Broken Grammar, and Fixing African History - Uncle Orson Reviews Everything
