The grammar myths article was interesting. It seems that language is such a living thing that rules evolve over time, and so how does one know when, finally, a particularly common grammar usage has become a “rule?” I just think language is fantastically fascinating.

Regarding “authority” and “certainty” in our preaching and teaching, I would again highly commend D.A. Carson’s “Christ and Culture Revisited.” He has a very helpful discussion of this whole matter in terms of our interface with postmodern philosophy and God’s clear self-revelation.

As the father to my children, it is my biblical responsibility to protect them - not the government, not an ISP, not some company making filtering software. I have set my children up where everything they view online, every search word they type, every link they click is sent to my laptop by email. I have to approve every site they try to visit and every message they send or receive is filtered through me via my email. If I find them to be searching for something questionable, we talk about it from a biblical standpoint. They know their internet usage isn’t a right, it’s a privilege, and they can lose it very quickly, because DAD is watching.

Ten Grammar Myths Debunked

Tim, I hope that you will advocate for CBMW to remove their site against the TNIV.

Every parent needs to be aware of the dangers of the internet and needs to be prepared to protect his children!

So true, but also *her* children. (See the following article to which you linked.)

As noted in that article on grammar myths debunked, the so-called singular (actually, it’s not singular, but indefinite) “they” is just fine. It’s been used for centuries, including by good English authors like William Shakespeare, C.S. Lewis, Dr. James Dobson, and Dr. John Piper (who uses indefinite “they” frequently in his preaching and writing, but doesn’t approve of it in the TNIV).

It’s prescriptivist English teachers who have taught us erroneously that the indefinite pronouns “everybody”, “everyone,” “anyone,” etc. are singular. They are not, nor are they plural. They are, instead, indefinite. That is, they refer to no specific single individual, but, rather, to any individual of a set who fits the specifications given in the context of the sentence in question. Indefinite “they” takes plural number agreement, while indefinite pronouns typically take singular number agreement, but even there, there is no mismatch since English, as with many other languages, often has a mismatch between semantic and grammatical number or person. “Now, Johnny, *we* really shouldn’t be doing that, should we.” Royal “we”. “You really shouldn’t end a sentence with a preposition, at least that’s what we were taught” (where “you” doesn’t really mean ‘you’).