#gramma

People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else. ↗

— B.R. Myers

#grammar #language #grammar

This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote. ↗

— China Miéville

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Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing. ↗

— John H. McWhorter

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

— Jonathan Culver

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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

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

— Sophie Morgan

#grammar #grammar-humor #bdsm

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#criticism #grammar #meanings #social

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

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