Sentence examples for language police from inspiring English sources
noun
Any person or group crusading for a particular usage or omission within a language; also called language cops, tongue troopers.
THE LANGUAGE POLICE: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn.
That's where the language police live, isn't it?
The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn, by Diane Ravitch.
This week, it was Ed Miliband who found himself hauled in front of the language police.
Language Police 1, Gay Marriage 0. We eloped on April Fools' Day because we are both, in fact, fools.
She shows how priggish, censorious and downright absurd "the language police" can be, and she does so with furious logic.
Too much of "Black Like You" is taken up with Strausbaugh's railings against multiculturalism and the language police.
I hear a lot of my fellow comedians saying this and complaining about having their language policed.
Political correctness as humourless language policing is an idea so normalised that blatantly racist, sexist, ableist and homophobic slurs can be protected under the rubric of free speech.
Campaigners want more explicit language polices that clearly ban child labour.
