That Grace looked annoyed at me.
"I didn't say you would go to jail, Junie B.," she said. "I just wish you would say the word correctly, that's all.
It's hard to take someone seriously when they leave you a note saying, 'Your ugly.' My ugly what? The idiot didn't even know the difference between your and you're.
Cara Lynn ShultzTags: grammar
Stupid English."
"English isn't stupid," I say.
"Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject, and I wanted to write about lunch, but he won't let me."
"Why not?"
"He says lunch isn't a subject."
I glance at him. "It isn't."
"Well," Jacob says, "it's not a predicate, either. Shouldn't he know that?
Tags: humor school grammar aspergers
There's a fine line between funny and annoying – and it's exactly the width of a quotation mark.
Martha BrockenbroughTags: grammar-humor grammar bad-habits quotation-marks
Love and translation look alike in their grammar. To love someone implies transforming their words into ours. Making an effort to understand the other person and, inevitably, to misinterpret them. To construct a precarious language together.
Andrés NeumanTags: love relationships language understanding lovers grammar translation
The English language is a work in progress. Have fun with it.
Jonathan CulverTags: language english grammar
Grammar is politics by other means.
Donna J. HarawayTags: politics gender feminism grammar linguistics
Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
Roald DahlTags: grammar
I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book: Aleph.(Note: bracketed text is mine.)... 'I spoke to three scholars,' [the character says 'at last.'] ...two of them said that, after death, the [sic (misprint, fault of the publisher)] just go to Paradise. The third one, though, told me to consult some verses from the Koran. [end quote]' ...I can see that he's excited. [narrator]' ...Now I have many positive things to say about Coelho: He is respectable, inspiring as a man, a truth-seeker, and an appealing writer; but one should hesitate to call him a 'literary' writer based on this quote. A 'literary' author knows that a character's excitement should be 'shown' in his or her dialogue and not in the narrator's commentary on it. Advice for Coelho: Remove the 'I can see that he's excited' sentence and show his excitement in the phrasing of his quote.(Now, in defense of Coelho, I am firmly of the opinion, having myself written plenty of prose that is flawed, that a novelist should be forgiven for slipping here and there.)Lastly, it appears that a belief in reincarnation is of great interest to Mr. Coelho ... Just think! He is a man who has achieved, (as Leonard Cohen would call it), 'a remote human possibility.' He has won lots of fame and tons of money. And yet, how his preoccupation with reincarnation—none other than an interest in being born again as somebody else—suggests that he is not happy!
Roman PayneTags: life truth happiness education writing inspiration literary-criticism writing-craft paulo-coelho leonard-cohen fame happy excitement paradise novels writing-advice educational islam koran craft birth fortune critique inspirational-life publishing imperfection life-and-death grammar reincarnation inspiring characterization faults authorship roman novelist born-again literary-theory dialogue cohen sentence-structure writing-art craftsmanship writing-from-the-heart writing-and-art critique-of-modernity inspirational-attitude human-potential islamic payne roman-payne narration coelho humaneness famous-authors islamic-quotes inspiring-quotes fame-and-fortune art-of-literature writing-as-a-profession aleph literature-quotes happiness-positive-outlook advice-for-writers phrasing grammatical
In this chthonian world the only thing of importance is orthography and punctuation. It doesn't matter what the nature of the calamity is, only whether it is spelled right.
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