Comments | goodbyechance: indeed.

goodbyechance

indeed.

Sep 14, 2008 10:44

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annoying shit, dad, grad school, birthdays, grammar

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Directly related! givinchycowgirl September 14 2008, 20:57:51 UTC

So my professor, the one I love, was carrying on and on about how iambic pentameter and the like was created so people could remember long Iliad-like poems (I know I've told you this part) and such. And so last class at break I was all, "SO I don't do time signature, can't hear iambic pentameter, and can't really remember music very easily-- thoughts?" And he was like, "Directly related!" and THEN (here's the new part) he was talking about grammar and how very similarly a lot of the best orators can't, for their lives, write out grammar, because it just doesn't make any sense in their brains why you would need it.
So, in conclusion, as you already know, your brain is just wired for grammar in a way that other people's is not. Congrats! And...that's not really related to the sentence you gave as an example, but still. Everything is all tied together.

And, again, happy birthday to David McCann, my favorite person in the world. :)

Re: Directly related! goodbyechance September 15 2008, 20:17:31 UTC

I'm glad you got 3rd party confirmation that you're not insane.

I know I'm a weirdo nerd. That sentence (...because it just doesn't make any sense in their brains why you would need it) makes me twitch, b/c omg how could you not realize how you need grammar?! What is WRONG with people?!!!

in other news, school is annoying. I have a feeling it's going to take me the entire quarter to get used to being back, and then I have a six-week break to get un-used to it. >_<<

Sry, but this is all we've been talking about in class for 2 weeks.... givinchycowgirl September 15 2008, 21:24:19 UTC

.....Grammar, in the sense of punctuation, did not exist with any consistency until the ninth century (if it was used before that, it was used to help tutor people who didn't have a normal speech pattern). The Greeks didn't use it, the Romans didn't use it, etc...obviously, since they EVENRANALLOFTHEIRWORDSTOGETHERANDUSEDALLCAPS. People didn't need it because writing was developed as a memory jogger for oral recital, so everything that was written was written with the intention of being read out loud, and most definitely not to be read silently...and when you're reading silently is when you most need the punctuation cues, at least in my mind ( ... )