Word
Great writers can ignore grammar because they know it in the first place, and a condescending opinion on top of a shitty attitude isn’t evidence that you know anything at all.
This isn’t about rules. Fuck the rules. This is about fundamental beauty inherent in the system. If you want to deconstruct the language in furtherance of personal expression, by all means, I’ll give you a poetic license to kill, but don’t piss on me and tell me it’s raining.
I can tell the difference between a deliberate and meaningful manipulation of words and the ramblings of some half-retarded teenager who wouldn’t know where to stick an apostrophe unless I lubed it up and put it in myself.
Mastery of language is the primary indication of intelligence, education, and grace, and the inability to effectively communicate is at the core of pretty much all the mental anguish we inflict on ourselves.
Just being intelligible isn’t enough. Style matters. Make all the excuses you want, but whether it’s on paper or on the street, if you come at me all sloppy, I’m not gonna respect you.
I’ve got standards, motherfucker.
--penguinprostitution
Amen to that. I have always loved language, be it chinese or english, because of the beauty of words. One can play around with words and construct a beautiful piece of writing to move, to awe. You can literally make love with alphabets and words. At the other end of the spectrum, words can hurt, bruise, cut. You can't do the same with numbers. They don't possess the immense power that words do. You can't break someone's heart or convey your innermost heartfelt emotions by putting together a numerical equation. Which is why I think a good command of language is important. Telling someone you're sad isn't the same as saying you're depressed, or miserable or suicidal. Neither is weird the same as abnormal or crazy. So before you make critical comments, think twice before you open your mouth and blabber the crap you always do because unbeknownst to you, you may end up being the one who's ridiculed.