Litsy

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Working on #ISpyBingoNov. This was a hard prompt, lol . It's a cute book with pictures that explain grammar. @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3h

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fredthemoose

Do I Make Myself Clear?: Why Writing Well Matters | Harold Evans

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⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 Part treatise on the importance of writing well and clearly and part reference guide with specific advice for improving writing. There‘s a lot of great and useful information here, but it was difficult to absorb much of it in an audiobook.

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LiseWorks

Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What Is an Adjective? | Brian P. Cleary

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I think that as an adult, I appreciate the reminder of the English language. #ISpyBingoMay Finally a bingo line. @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Looking great!! 6mo

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GingerAntics

Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark | Cecelia Watson

Perhaps there is a better way to communicate my feelings about this book… I never physically read an Alexis Hall book until this year. I loved their writing, and had listened to multiple audiobooks of AH books. When I first started reading one of Hall‘s books, I noticed the grammar wasn‘t “correct.” If I had read my first AH book, I may have never read another. I may have never finished that first book.
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GingerAntics Is style, that is perfectly clear and understandable, with great story telling, somehow less than because it‘s not written within the same rules as an academic paper? Not even all academic papers follow the same rules, so how can we hold works of fiction to those same standards. If an author‘s writing becomes unclear, unintelligible to you, now you have a problem. Until then, it‘s a stylistic choice. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 (edited) 8mo

GingerAntics Hall writes the way people think. People talk the way they think. This shouldn‘t be “wrong.” It is only wrong by modern standards, as until modern times one could write as they chose as long as the point was clear. Maybe we need to return to that a little bit, especially when talking about literature. #CeceliaWatson #Semicolon #Grammar #AlexisHall #PushTheBoatOutHall (edited) 8mo

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GingerAntics

Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark | Cecelia Watson

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This was enlightening, and actually answered some questions a few former colleagues and I have had for close to a decade now about how these great thinkers and intellectuals of old seem to have no sense of grammar rules... BECAUSE THE RULES WE ARE HOLDING THEM TO DID NOT EXIST IN THEIR LIFE TIMES.
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GingerAntics People have tried shoehorning these writings into modern grammar rules, all to the detriment of those wishing to read these great thinkers and intellectuals in the present. Especially when one considers that these rules are not, in any way, uniform even at a given point in time. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 8mo

GingerAntics Policing language appears to be - from the beginning - just one more way to oppress the poor, minorities, and otherwise “other” of the English speaking world. It was supposedly an attempt to make language into a science which it never has been and never will be. It was not until recent decades that parents even wanted grammar taught in schools, and even that was more a case of “we suffered through it, so can you.” 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 8mo

GingerAntics There is a time and place for “proper” grammar. Proper grammar allows what one has written to effectively communicate. If what you have written is unclear, that‘s a problem. If it‘s clear what you mean, nothing else should matter. In fact, it has, in our divisive times, because an accepted reason to completely disregard other points of view without ever addressing or even paying attention to those points of view. #CeceliaWatson #Semicolon #Grammar 8mo

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GingerAntics

Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark | Cecelia Watson

We are turning grammar into gate keeping of language. We are punishing language learners, people who have not had the same education opportunities we have had, or someone using a different way of communicating with the same language. Remember, that in the 19th century, grammar police tried to correct the grammar of WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE! There is a time and a place, but neither of those is everywhere and all the time.
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Sace I have to read this book. As a language teacher I am fascinated by grammar and linguistics (and the actual process of language acquisition…which is not through grammar drills). As a language learner I understand the angst of wanting to communicate but still making mistakes and being afraid I‘m being judged for them. 8mo

GingerAntics @Sace she does touch on this a TINY bit toward the end (in that we shouldn‘t judge language learners for making mistakes), but she also addresses that not all languages have the semicolon which was certainly news to me. 8mo

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GingerAntics

Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark | Cecelia Watson