RE: [Re: RAT Reading Series --What Brecht thinks TO LEE]

["Sylvain, John" <jsylvain@station.sony.com>]

WARNING:
When you don't use the language correctly and/or carefully, that's the
English Language I'm talking about, you:
a) make it difficult for people to understand what you are trying to say 
b) open yourself up to ridicule

God is in the details. So is the devil. So is the Buddha.

This comment from you is, I know, just a defensive reaction to Lee's snide
comments about your last posting. I shouldn't take it so seriously but the
more I think about this the harder it is just to push send. I want to go on
and on about this. About the importance of care in communication and the
disintergration of language and the reintergration of language and how there
is a difference between slang and slackness. Shakespheare invented new
language and in the process invented new ontologies. This is what we
can/are/should/might do as theater artists at the beginning of the
millenium. But Old Will didn't do it carelessly and neither should we. This
listserv is amazing in its ennounciation and invokation of a new theater. It
is a sacred and profound space.

Whew! I really went off didn't I? 

The other thing is just because someone makes comments on your incorrect
grammar doesn't mean they are 
a) smarter than you
b) an academic who is "apathetic to ART"
c) pretending to be uptight or anal

I care about grammar and I might make gentle fun of a grammatical or
spelling mistake but if anyone calls me an academic who is apathetic to art
I will get so angry I just might break a few linguistic laws in response.

Ya'know, that's probably why I'm going off. That comment got my dander up.

Thanks for reading.

Love
John "Grammar Is My Life" Sylvain
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	DennisLMo@aol.com [SMTP:DennisLMo@aol.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, October 19, 1999 4:12 AM
> To:	rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
> Subject:	Re: [Re: RAT Reading Series --What Brecht thinks TO LEE]
> 
> snide non art on the screen. how do you punctuate stage dialogue. let's
> see, 
> the artists that worry so about punctuation, spelling, and grammar. hmm.
> who 
> are they. academics antipathetic to ART or is it artists.are you in school
> 
> somewhere. probably not. stop pretending to be uptight and anal. or are
> you 
> just that way.suddenly i'm sentimental about T.V.
> HI
> dennis