Comments on: Grammar Police https://www.usrepresented.com/2015/02/07/grammar-police/ Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:43:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 By: Warren C. Edick II https://www.usrepresented.com/2015/02/07/grammar-police/#comment-112 Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:26:38 +0000 https://www.usrepresented.com/?p=23520#comment-112 …great fun here DeLyn and thank you for that! Yet, as a small village philosopher I find myself wondering: Why? Why is it important to resist the degradation of our language and the written word? Don’t get me wrong, I agree with you wholeheartedly and am considering carrying a sharpie and a white-out pen for emergencies myself. Nonetheless, in our post-modern age I hear and read so much in regards to language and our use of it being described as language-games, that which can be deconstructed to what are but miniature Rorschach ink blots (i.e. the letters), a random swirl of signs and signals that ultimately allows for no common or unified meaningfulness at all, but rather, the eye of the beholder is all the reality thereof. Given this, our current cultural tapestry, what reasons are there to adhere to correctness in spelling and grammar in the realm of mundane and every day practical use of linguistic communication? In short, why do we care how others do that?

Best, Warren C. Edick II

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