Last autumn-ish, a group of my friends got into a heated and passionate debate over grammar, thanks to a popular song by hipster darlings Vampire Weekend. It began with comma use, then escalated to an argument over how many spaces should be used after each period. Like a 24 hour cable news channel, voices were raised, positions were laid out, struck down and reiterated, and everyone left with the same opinions with which they came.
Turns out, once you get away from diagramming sentences (something they never taught us in public school) and start focusing on the way grammar should be rather than how it actually is, suddenly everyone’s got an opinion. All of which is to say that I’m going to be guest blogging from time to time at Little Red Bird, wherein I will let the world, the internets, the AP Style Guide, MLA Style Guide and Chicago Manual of Style know the way it ought to be.
My first post is already on the site, and let it be known, I take no prisoners.