What the hell is a Grammar Anarchist? You can be one! Since we don’t have a U.S. language, feel FREE to set your own rules -- interpret grammar YOUR WAY. You’re not in England anymore. Join the anarchy of U.S. grammar! Make your choices and preserve them in YOUR STYLE MANUAL. —The Grammar Anarchist
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.
Why do you put rules in quotation marks sometimes and not into others?
ReplyDeletePeople 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.
ReplyDeleteAha!! so I don't have to use quotation marks with the rules of ken-ken or Jeopardy?
ReplyDeleteYup! You've got it!
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