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GRAMMAR IS BULLSH*T
A Brief Explanation for Why Grammar Doesn’t Matter!
A professor for one of my earliest English classes at Boston College, who had a penchant for odd yet insightful tangents, explained one class day that grammar was bullshit.
Yes, that’s right, folks. Grammar is complete gob shit!
Well, no…let’s not go that far.
In less vulgarities, but more New England accent, the professor’s point was that we need not fret about the hard and fast rules of grammar in writing.
The obvious example of this idea: the poet.
Poets are the deliberate rule-breakers in writing. Can we even consider a work poetry if it’s not in some way disrupting traditional means of communication? Random, though maybe not-so-random, line breaks. Punctuation that appears to have been tossed onto the poem by Jackson Pollock.
At any rate, the poets message is still able to be relayed to and understood by the reader.
But I’m not here talking to poets, who know good and well that grammar is bullshit.
I’m here for the rest of us — the rest of us writing on Medium or anywhere else for that matter.
This professor of mine went on to explain that writing is centrally about the communication of…
