This research doesn't sound plausible
Sounds more like run-of-the-mill opinionated bollocks to me.

In Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct, he describes a study that found that the group that uses ungrammatical sentences most often are in fact academics and other highly educated professionals - especially those in the languages and humanities.

Everyone is guilty of a little hypercorrection here and there, but trying to use it as a class marker is a bit rich. Your average secretary might occasionally misuse a rule she doesn't properly understand, but a good 95% of her spoken sentences (allowing for filled pauses and other features of spoken language) will be perfectly grammatical, and will use rules unconsciously and effortlessly that are far more complex than the rule governing the my/myself distinction.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Mon 11 Apr 2011, 12:59, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

they might be more complex
but they are much less fucking annoying
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 11 Apr 2011, 16:53, Reply)