DESTANDARDIZE LANGUAGE.

Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Punk!tuation

Punk!tuation! is all. about creative license ...

You have to ,feel, [the freedom] as you let go. of> former constraints

To: destandardize punctuation. is to play with time? as well as space?

You. are. altering. -- the way, the sentence -- reads. and. flows. and. its cadence

And you are making \physical\ changes in its }structure{ by inserting--->O punctuation _here or *there as it suits you)

Are paragraph breaks punctuation!

They are arent they and apostrophes too!

Are $CAPITAL$ letters punctuation!

The Answer Is, Yes And all punctuation should be Punk!tuation)))))))

Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Me and Allen vs. Allen and I

It is said that "Allen and I blogged" is the way to say it, vs. "Me and Allen blogged," since one wouldn't say "Me blogged" but rather "I blogged." This is because grammar rules, with the faux precision of mathematics, maintains that the subject is somehow still me in a way as the speaker, and therefore the logic of the word choice must reflect that.

However I would argue for an alternative logic, wherein "Me and Allen" is a subset of subjects, logically equivalent to "Allen and I." The word choice may reflect the speaker's desires only.

My logic assumes that the word me is an entirely appropriate way to answer the question, "Who blogged?" which is not assumed in the grammatically standardized view.

In fact my logic is the logic of the language as it is actually spoken, when people are not diagramming their sentences before opening their mouths.

[Me and Allen] went to the park = [Allen and I] went to the park.

Sunday, March 13, 2005

kneehilism/nyhilism

I have heard both pronunciations. I think officially it's supposed to be kneehilism, ie professors of philosophy say kneehilism. But the people in the street seem to think nyhilism as if extracted from annihilate. I prefer nyhilism.