The goal of a writer is to write something that others care
to read. Correct grammar may or may not
play much of a part in achieving this end.
As a student of foreign languages I will take vocabulary over
grammar seven days a week. This isn’t to say that I don’t study grammar but if
you don’t know a word no amount of good grammar is going to bail you out linguistically.
If you’re going to be enough of an jerk to correct
someone’s grammar you had better be right 100% of the time or you are the
biggest jerk in history. Even if you are always right that might not keep me
from punching you in the neck. Grammar isn’t in itself communication; it’s simply
a tool that can make communication clearer. Language is the wine and grammar is
merely the glass. Sometimes people like to drink right from the bottle. Get
over it.
I am a very firm believer in the Oxford comma.
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