reasons you need to stop bragging about your “perfect grammar and spelling”
-it’s ableist
-it’s annoying
-it’s probably nowhere close to perfect, not even by your standards
-you sound like a fucking brat
-language evolves; or, as my favorite linguistics professor used to say, in his deep russian monotone: “language is alive”
-sherman alexie: “grammar cops are rarely good writers. imagination always disobeys.”
-like i can’t even tell you how true that is
-errors do not necessarily suggest a lack of understanding
-the belief that “perfect grammar” is a real thing rests on the assumption that there are certain ways of writing and speaking that are fundamentally incorrect…
-and ultimately, racism and classism are the primary determiners of what’s considered “correct”
-there are so many other things to take pride in—why settle for being an elitist piece of shit?
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misandristscum: reasons you need to stop bragging about your “perfect grammar and spelling” -it’s...
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