Monday, July 4, 2011
What the *%#)#! is a R-U-L-E?
A rule is close to a law in that it cannot be altered. An honest rule has no exceptions. Imagine the rules of baseball if they were flexible: three strikes, you're out (except...); you're tagged stealing a base, you're out (except...); a caught fly is an automatic out (except...)! An honest grammar anarchist refuses to talk about "rules" when discussing U.S. language.
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Why do you put rules in quotation marks sometimes and not into others?
People keep referring to "grammar rules" which any good grammar anarchist knows is a myth. Hence the quote marks when talking about grammar "rules". Real rules cannot be broken; that word does not need quote marks.
Aha!! so I don't have to use quotation marks with the rules of ken-ken or Jeopardy?
Yup! You've got it!
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