Grammar is like a strive for perfection. It's useless really.
Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.
What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles...
What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist?
Youir're doing this wrong.
People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else.
Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, I'll be dead, you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's h...
Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water.
And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.
Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences
Deleuze and Guattari have been totally misunderstood because the following has been wrenched from context: "Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for an...