I found Wallace's Present Tense article quite confusing. It was hard to read and took me a long time to get to the end. This is likely due to the fact that the audience for this article is intended to be higher educated adults and academics; or someone smart enough to want to analyze where words come from, when to use them, and why. Anyway, as I read, I came across some things that I thought didn't make sense, some that I agreed with, and finally some that I didn't agree with. Wallace's questions to the people who provided definitions of words in the commonly used dictionary is what first caught my attention. He uses the word “snobbish” to describe them as people who believe they come from a higher social status: arrogant and snobbish. However, as he criticizes these people, wondering why he should follow what they say, he is actually becoming a snob himself. Furthermore, we know that he is an English teacher, the product of a “nuclear family”; his mother was a snooty girl and his father didn't care at all. So I don't understand, hi...