RAT John Sylvain and "grammar"

[jonoh1@juno.com]

Yeah! What the hell FOR would you want to effectisiously communicate?
Fuck structure and syntax! Fuck 'em, says Anne Sexton! Fuck 'em, says
Emily Dickenson! Fuck 'em, Says Howard Stern!  Whom needs 'em? What we
need to live good again is everything they had in that period that they
named after some royal queen or something. Ain't nobody learning that
stuff in schools anyway anymore so get on the bus all you snobby snobs or
else we're leaving without you on it and we'll go by ourselves alone!
Teaching people to speaking good has gone the way of music. Like the
person below says: Shakespeare was good BECAUSE he broke the rules that
didn't exist yet! So put THAT in your pipe and take a shower! So says
Tanya Harding, so says Dan Quayle, so says Rodney King and so say I.
Jonathan damn it


On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 04:53:13 EDT TravSD@aol.com writes:
>Yo, John Sylvain--Shakespeare didn't give a fuck about grammar because 
>no 
>dogma about english grammar existed in the Elizabethen period! He is 
>the 
>master of the split infinitive, the mixed metaphor, and the extra foot 
>of 
>meter-- in short, he is a great writer simply BECAUSE he bent the 
>language to 
>his will and the fucking pedants, schoolmarms and "style mavens" 
>hadn't yet 
>spread their feces around the field of human expression, 
>straight-jacketing 
>the very words as they escape from our brains. Fuck the details! so 
>said 
>Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Plautus, Rabelais, Shakespeare, Chaucer and 
>Walt 
>Whitman and so say I. Trav S.D.

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