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People of very different opinions--friends who can discuss politics, religion, and sex with perfect civility--are often reduced to red-faced rage when the topic of conversation is the serial comma or an expression like more unique. People who merely roll their eyes at hate crimes feel compelled to write jeremiads on declining standards when a newspaper uses the wrong form of its. Challenge my most cherished beliefs about the place of humankind in God's creation, and while I may not agree with you, I'll fight to the death for your right to say it. But dangle a participle in my presence, and I'll consider you a subliterate cretin no longer worth listening to, a menace to decent society who should be removed from the gene pool before you do any more damage.


Jack Lynch


#language #misuse #ungrammatical #death

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

No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.


Edward Sapir


#category #complete #consistently #grammatical #handled

Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.


Robert Anton Wilson


#each #exist #fictions #grammatical #groups

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.


Edward Sapir


#character #french #german #grammatical #illustrate






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