Re: RAT Re: John Sylvain and "grammar"

[Audie McCall <audiemccall@yahoo.com>]

Horseshit.

Would you trust a plumber who didn't let the "pundits
of pipe" get him down?

Know your tools.


--- 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.
> 


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