#gramma

The English language is a work in progress. Have fun with it. ↗

— Jonathan Culver

#grammar #language #grammar

A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail. ↗

— Ben Marcus

#language #spelling #grammar

If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality. ↗

— Arthur Plotnick

#grammar

I decided quickly that committing crimes against grammar was a hard limit for me. ↗

— Sophie Morgan

#grammar #grammar-humor #bdsm

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#ago #found #fundamentals #got #grammar

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships! ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#allowance #back #douglas #grammar #grammar school

I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation. ↗

— Brian P. Cleary

#all things #alphabet #already #books #covered

#Twitter: proudly promoting ghastly grammar and silly misspelling since 2006. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#grammar #grammar-humor #humor #misspelling #satirical

In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal. But if we stop at that point and concern ourselves only with the marvels of the formation of a language, seeking the hidden reason of all its apparent caprices, we do not reach that end, for grammar is not literature… When we come to literature, we find that, though it conforms to the rules of grammar, it is yet a thing of joy; it is freedom itself. The beauty of a poem is bound by strict laws, yet it transcends them. The laws are its wings. They do not keep it weighed down. They carry it to freedom. Its form is in law, but its spirit is in beauty. Law is the first step toward freedom, and beauty is the complete liberation which stands on the pedestal of law. Beauty harmonizes in itself the limit and the beyond – the law and the liberty. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#caprice #first-step #freedom #grammar #hidden-reason

When taking Spock to see the spores, Leila comments, "It's not much further." having been beaten about the head severely on the difference between "further" and "farther," I believe I can say with some trembling confidence that she should say, "it's not much farther." "Further" means "to a greater extent or degree" whereas "farther" means "to a greater distance." (I know this is really picky, but hey, that's my business.) ↗

— Phil Farrand

#geek #grammar-humor #nit #nitpick #pick