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I should thank her for writing such a boring, tedious book filled with "old man yells at cloud" energy that it started me on the path away from prescriptivism.
Jeez. I thought it was amusing.
Maybe I just had different expectations. I really thought it would have interesting things to say about grammar, but it was just her complaining about the same surface-level type of thing over and over. I guess I just wasn't expecting something meant to be popular instead of substantive after the hype I'd heard around it-- guess I didn't look enough into what it was beforehand.
That would be different for sure. I just went into it hoping for something light and amusing about punctuation, so I wasn't disappointed.