Grammar Girl here, my week got turned upside down because Tuesday morning people started sending me links to Weird Al's new video Word Crimes about once every minute.

So instead of what I'd planned for this week, we're gonna talk about Weird Al's wonderful and horrible new video.

Where do I begin? Weird Al Yankovik's new video Word Crimes is a parody of Robin Thicks video blurred lines.

And it made me want to stop being Grammar Girl.

You're all gonna love this video because it's catchy and well done and charming in many so many ways.

It's frickin' adorable and I wish I could love it with you, but I can't.

Go watch it, love it, share it with your friends, but and I know I sound incredibly earnest here,

but when you watch it, especially the end, think about the screwed up message.

I started to have tiny misgivings around the one minute mark.

He beats the old and ever-popular peave that I could care less means you could care a little.

I don't expect a music video to address the subtleties of language and I tell people not to use could care less too when they ask,

but it's a tired old peave so it's not a promising start to the video.

And then he calls people morons.

Followed by a nice little lesson about it's and it's and acknowledgement that the Oxford comma is a style choice.

But then it's back to the prescriptivism about not using letters as words.

He sings BCRU are words not letters.

You should never write words using numbers unless you're seven or your name is Prince.

I hate these word crimes and he goes on.

And this is why it made me want to stop being grammar girl.

It makes me no fun.

I can't. I can't just laugh at the great Prince joke.

Instead, my mind says, but but immediately after saying never,

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