So I'm like, 'Who Needs This Grammar Stuff?' (Social Attitude toward Grammatical Errors Varies Greatly as the Language Becomes Less Formal)(2000 the Millennium Notebook)(Column)

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THIS IS A SENTENCE THAT some people would not put up with. Those who take their grammar seriously frown upon sentences that end in prepositions, much as they spring to correct anybody who'd dare to casually split an infinitive. If you're the sort of person who might say "between you and I," look out. Newspaper columnist Mary Newton Bruder, perhaps better known as The Grammar Lady, is currently spearheading a campaign to help stop "personal-pronoun abuse," which may not be as serious a problem as, say, drug abuse, but which has ramifications nevertheless. "The situation has gotten out of hand," she writes on her Web page Stamp Out Bad Grammar. "If we don't stop it now, this travesty will …