Greetings from the malarial zone.
The world has recently deemed grammar, syntax and spelling as obsolescent relics of tweed-wearing pedants. I must have been sleeping when the blackguards snuck in and slit the throat of the King's English.
But now I am awake.
Pitted against these noble prescriptivists is a new bloc of apostrophe-abusing mouth breathers who refuse to cherish the idiosyncratic conventions of our glorious bastard tongue.
Pidgin English is not inevitable. It is a compromise both unacceptable and wholly unnecessary. Language need not stagnate if grammar were upheld; rather, it should supply parameters with which to accommodate new additions to the world lexicon.
To this end, I'll use this blog-space to discuss topical etymology--new words and old words forgotten.
As always, merge with caution.
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I love this. Grammar is important. So is being present in class.
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