I have a little voice inside me that every time i hear an English sentence or read an English sentence, it wants to correct that sentence if there are any “errors”.

It’s a curse.

I was an English major at Cornell University. Yes, a misfit one, but also with a long history of reading a lot of books. And then i took a variety of linguistics & more English classes at other schools — UNC Chapel Hill, Arizona State University, and Framingham State College.

Yes, my approach to language is more computational than others, partly because i was a Physics major before English, and partly because i’ve worked with computers for forty-some years.

Maybe it’s all the proofreading and editing i’ve done; maybe that’s the voice.

But i still have my own English-language idiosyncrasies, as you have probably noticed. I do not care; i like my English.