Re: RAT John Sylvain and "grammar"

["Jonathan Westerberg" <jwesterberg@earthlink.net>]

By the way, it's "speak well" not "speak good."  "Good" is an adjective, you
see.  "Well" is an adverb.

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>From: jonoh1@juno.com
>To: rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
>Subject: RAT John Sylvain and "grammar"
>Date: Wed, Oct 20, 1999, 2:12 AM
>

> 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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