Re: RAT Re: John Sylvain and "grammar"

[Christopher DeWan <cdewan@relaypoint.net>]

This is the biggest piece of pucky I've seen on this list.


TravSD@aol.com wrote:

> 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.