I actually wasn't aware that he had that background, and he came across more like someone who'd picked up a book or two or maybe taken a first-year class and taken the lesson on the nonsuperiority of the standard as an excuse to call out "grammar nazis". As I mentioned, I have very little time for the modernist attitude that came across.

Lee, sorry if I took you a little too seriously — I feel rather strongly about these issues, simply because the modernist/relativist "everything-is-only-opinion" attitude is so common among amateurs who want to sound impressive and I think it is thoroughly incorrect. I don't mean to offend you.