Re: RAT John Sylvain and "grammar"

[jonoh1@juno.com]

No shit.
J.

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 13:45:59 -0800 "Jonathan Westerberg"
<jwesterberg@earthlink.net> writes:
>By the way, it's "speak well" not "speak good."  "Good" is an 
>adjective, you
>see.  "Well" is an adverb.
>
>----------
>>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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