Welcome to the Grammar Punk Blog!
January 2nd, 2009
For those familiar with Grammar Punk, you are aware how passionate, even a little nutty we are, on the subject of words. Because of course that is the what, the why, the how, and the who cares about Grammar. Grammar justifies its stodgy, pedantic, decidedly un-fun reputation by bringing order to that confusing conundrum of possibilities: communication.
Feh on rules you (certainly your students) say. Rules are for the dull, the timid, the unimaginative. Rules quash the urge for creativity and self-expression. Rules, plain and simple, take all the fun out of things.
We couldn’t agree more.
Well, sort of.
Our main objection is that along the way Grammar has attained the most unfortunate of reputations: Grammar is boring!
Nonsense, we answered emphatically. Grammar, certainly the teaching of it, has merely been…misunderstood. Grammar Punk to the rescue! Because as far as we’re concerned, there is nothing boring about learning to communicate. Which is precisely what this intriguingly weird, oddly entertaining, and endlessly optimistic little blog will be about.
We will be blogging daily. Be sure and check in with us regularly.