Wallace's aticle, "Tense Present", reviewed how Bryan A. Garner's A Dictionary of Modern American Usage balances the relationship between authority and democracy. Though most authors will usually tip the scale in favor of one or the other, Wallace seems to believe Garner proportioned these two issues equally. Wallace points out that Garner uses the "Democratic Spirit" when writing the usage guide, but doesn't hesitate to mention his use of authority either.
The article then goes on to talk about Garner's use of prescriptivism, getting into the difference between prescriptivists and descriptivists.
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