David Foster Wallace; Tense Present: Democracy, English, And the Wars Over Usage; Harper’s Magazine (New York); Apr 2001

“From one perspective, a certain irony attends the publication of any good new book on American usage. It is that the people who are going to be interested in such a book are also the people who are least going to need it. … The sorts of people who feel that special blend of wincing despair and sneering superiority when they see EXPRESS LANE – 10 ITEMS OR LESS or hear dialogue used as a verb or realize that the founders of the Super 8 motel chain must surely have been ignorant of the meaning of suppurate.” - David Foster Wallace; Tense Present: Democracy, English, And the Wars Over Usage; Harper’s Magazine (New York); Apr 2001.

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