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Crossword blog: Weird Al and the 'rules' of cryptics

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Prescriptivism can be found in grammar, orthography and, of course, crosswords. So do the tribes overlap?

The best way to watch Weird Al Yankovic's Word Crimes is to put Blurred Lines out of your mind completely and to imagine it as a sui generis song about language peeves, albeit one with an apparent debt to Marvin Gaye:

The song is irrepressible, if mistitled; admittedly, Familiar Arbitrary Linguistic Conventions To Which Some Choose Not To Adhere doesn't make for as good a soundalike title.

Get out of the gene pool
Try your best to not drool

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