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Originally Posted by astronaut x
Yea, someone said he was a good writer. I fail to see how you can have so many grammatical errors and still be a good writer.
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Originally Posted by ManuteBol
Nothing is more annoying that grammatical errors, it says alot.
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Rules are merely guidelines for the ignorant.
When reading The Sound and the Fury during my sophomore year of high school, a highly regarded private school, I noticed that Faulkner would often begin sentences with a conjunction even though the rules of grammar state that you cannot. I asked my teacher what the deal was with that and why it was OK for Faulkner to do it but not acceptable for the rest of us. First he complimented me on my observational skills and told me keep it up.. He then explained how Faulkner was not the only great writer who broke the rules but that they knew them before they broke them and that I had to learn them before I broke them. So that’s what I did.
I can’t speak to whether or Jay is familiar with all rules but I can say for certain that I am so if I say that he’s good writer, you can be rest assured that he’s a good writer. Deal with it. Rock and roll.