#gramma

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

#grammar

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

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

#ago #found #fundamentals #got #grammar

Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus. ↗

— D.T. Max

#consensus #grammar #life

You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy. ↗

— Peter Bogdanovich

#commercials #cut #easy #film #grammar

Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows? ↗

— Nigel Farage

#beginning #cutting #europe #flat #foreign