word rage
The interesting thing about word rage is that it almost never really is. Those folks who talk about yelling at their radio when they hear someone use less instead of fewer, or who, like Dick Cavett, threaten to "pop" the senator who spoke of his "incredulous" experiences -- they're not really angry at all. It's all a exercise in counterfeit camp. And by the by, it demonstrates just what an irrelevant business language criticism has become.
If you take it literally, the striking thing about the indignation of modern language snobs is how ostentatiously disproportionate it always is.
from: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004167.html