Thursday, June 21, 2007
I just found a sweet blog.
This person has an amazing view of the world. I just noticed it, and the way she looks at random things is just incredible.
So this is my new blog
I'm not sure exactly what this will be. I don't know what kind of posts will be here, and I don't think this will have a particular theme at all. It's just going to be what I'm thinking in the moment, what's on my mind.
So here it is right now:
Unlike a lot of people, grammar is very important to me in my writing. I believe that any piece of writing that is rife with grammar usage mechanics errors has no meaning. The intent behind the words has no more importance than the words themselves, and if nobody can understand the words, there is no meaning whatsoever. It seems, however, that grammar is dying. Adverbs are merging with adjectives, and now we can describe an action with the same word we use to describe the person doing it. I have a friend who claims her next dog will be named "Ly", (pronounced "lee") because she sees the death of adverbs in her sixth grade students' vocabulary. She thinks that if the dog is named Ly people will say, "Come quick, Ly" and it will almost be like they understand English. Even if it's only for a second.
But really that's a sad thing. Is that really the only way to make people speak English correctly? To trick them? And what about the people who don't even know how to speak properly? Can we improve our education system to the point that children actually learn the language they are supposed to?
Probably not.
Languages are ever-evolving. Someday it will be perfectly acceptable to tell someone, "your beautiful". Some people reading this probably ask what is even wrong with that anyway, (eyeroll). "Your" is posessive. The contraction is "you're" as in "you are". The funniest mistake with this was when yesterday my friend Elise contacted me over the internet to invite me to participate in the play Bang Bang You're Dead. Except she asked me if I wanted to be in "Bang bang your dead". I had to refrain from asking her if that was the necrophiliacs' version of the play.
So here it is right now:
Unlike a lot of people, grammar is very important to me in my writing. I believe that any piece of writing that is rife with grammar usage mechanics errors has no meaning. The intent behind the words has no more importance than the words themselves, and if nobody can understand the words, there is no meaning whatsoever. It seems, however, that grammar is dying. Adverbs are merging with adjectives, and now we can describe an action with the same word we use to describe the person doing it. I have a friend who claims her next dog will be named "Ly", (pronounced "lee") because she sees the death of adverbs in her sixth grade students' vocabulary. She thinks that if the dog is named Ly people will say, "Come quick, Ly" and it will almost be like they understand English. Even if it's only for a second.
But really that's a sad thing. Is that really the only way to make people speak English correctly? To trick them? And what about the people who don't even know how to speak properly? Can we improve our education system to the point that children actually learn the language they are supposed to?
Probably not.
Languages are ever-evolving. Someday it will be perfectly acceptable to tell someone, "your beautiful". Some people reading this probably ask what is even wrong with that anyway, (eyeroll). "Your" is posessive. The contraction is "you're" as in "you are". The funniest mistake with this was when yesterday my friend Elise contacted me over the internet to invite me to participate in the play Bang Bang You're Dead. Except she asked me if I wanted to be in "Bang bang your dead". I had to refrain from asking her if that was the necrophiliacs' version of the play.
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