Sentence Sensibility

Today's On Language is rather ... targeted, shall we say, to me:

"I didn’t realize, however, what a huge boulder I would be rolling uphill — what with my being a “literary person,” a sometime editor of this column, someone whose ear is as tuned to the pitch of language as a cellist’s is to music — until the misplaced modifiers, dyslexic spellings and grievous abuses of syntax started pouring in.
...But just imagine what it’s like to be afflicted with an excess language-sensitivity gene. I mean, how would you feel if someone extolled your “skillful verbage”? Maybe he liked the way I threw my verbs around, but my nose picked up a whiff of “garbage.”"



also, please note that the times website has the Author's name spelled wrong. Jaimie Esptein. GO NEW YORK TIMES ONLINE COPYEDITORS.