I know grammar better than grammar dot com, better than grammarians, better than the rules of grammar know their own subject matter. I’ve digested and assimilated the SPIRIT of the english language, the ghost which the cage of grammar was built to trap— But u can’t trap a ghost.
Some of u already know that I spent 3 years in constant flamewar on Grammar Exchange, spreading my gospel of grammar-interpretivism to the pedant hordes whose ears burned and who spat bile at me for speaking truth. Every one of them an autistic philistine, to the man.
I do not ‘refer’ to rules of grammar, because in many cases they are wrong. Official spellings too— many words are spelled wrongly in the dictionary. At best they should be considered descriptive scaffoldings erected to describe the way language is used already
i've never read rules of semicolon placement, but I have never misplaced one— they go where they belong. I grammarise like I dance; if u find my dance distasteful, ur taste is poor and u should ask ur mother if she knew the effect of dietary iodine on IQ while pregnant with you
Everyday speakers are artists, damning convention, bearing their hearts, risking ridicule. Grammar-positivists are critics sneering in ironic non-participation, pedants who get off on comfortable withdrawal into the Oxford Citadel of Reduction to Emergent Framework.
The triple-comma, the space replacing the apostrophe, the capital 'U' to modulate connotation, the run-on sentence, intentional misspelling = The transgressive grammarian's brushwork modes = the painter's chiaroscuro, cangiante, sfumato. A form of poetry born on a QWERTY ki-bordt
catgirl, bap, fod, worm, sixthree, thomas777..........., nick land, W.S. burroughs, peter carey, E.E. Cumshot.... shakes beer!!? just as a religious truth is TRUE in a way which transcends its inaccuracies, their grammar is perfect in a way which transcends incorrectness.
QWERTY is a linguistic revolution unacknowledged by autistic grammar-positivist regime. Prose meant to be unconsciously read ‘aloud’ by brainvoice is lightyears more multifaceted and expressive than that meant to be read aloud by mouthvoice.
But I want to see it taken further. I envision integration of formal logic, URLs, homespun acronyms, BODMAS mathematical language, numerology, all woven into the written word. I want to tweet like this but I can't, nobody would get it.
And therefore the vision runs further: labyrinths of ever-evolving implied grammatical canons specific to online niches; Feyerabend's anarchic methodless science applied to grammar/syntax, strictly endogenous organic language conventions barring newfag entry to a given community
But we are tyrannised by our anchorage to the Oxford Citadel... It needs to come crashing down... we need to kill them.
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