#grammar

The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it. ↗

— Lynne Truss

#grammar #stupid #tolerance

It's hard to take someone seriously when they leave you a note saying, 'Your ugly.' My ugly what? The idiot didn't even know the difference between your and you're. ↗

— Cara Lynn Shultz

#grammar

I just practically begged him to kiss me, and he’s critiquing my grammar? ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#sky-and-holder #sky-davis #grammar

English doesn’t borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar. ↗

— James Nicoll

#grammar #humor #humor

In ways that certain of us are uncomfortable about, SNOOTs’ attitudes about contemporary usage resemble religious/political conservatives’ attitudes about contemporary culture. We combine a missionary zeal and a near-neural faith in our beliefs’ importance with a curmudgeonly hell-in-a-handbasket despair at the way English is routinely manhandled and corrupted by supposedly educated people. The Evil is all around us: boners and clunkers and solecistic howlers and bursts of voguish linguistic methane that make any SNOOT’s cheek twitch and forehead darken. A fellow SNOOT I know likes to say that listening to most people’s English feels like watching somebody use a Stradivarius to pound nails: We are the Few, the Proud, the Appalled at Everyone Else. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#grammar #snoot #attitude

The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral. ↗

— George Steiner

#ecstasy #whisper #grammar

Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#both #college #grammar #grammar school #margaret

Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did my imitations, I could sound like someone really rough, or I could sound like a cabinet minister. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#could #did #different #different types #going

It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me. ↗

— Bo Derek

#am #difficult #discouraging #discovered #expected

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. ↗

— Joan Didion

#ear #grammar #i #know #piano