LANGUAGE

Saturday, May 18, 2019

Trick Two: Use Grammar wisely – and how to take risks!


If you are making a serious argument and get the grammar wrong, then you look an idiot. People will not correct you though, because they will themselves make typos and then look very stupid indeed. Also it's rude.
Here are a couple of examples:
So we are now asked to believe that the European Council will pull the lever to eject the UK on the very last day of the old EU Commission.Dont the enthusiasts for juncker rule think that might not be a terribly good end and beginning and eject the EU into a pile of criticism?
Judging by the rest of the comment – I'll make it anonymous – these are typos. So I still take the comment seriously.
But this next comment is simply illiterate:
There is one benefit a new broom can bring, its a new approach to the red lines.
At the moment they are all sounding off on the hardest of hard Brexit because that is what the grassroots want to hear.
Lets say Boris actually got his hands on the Crown he is shameless enough to u turn on whatever type of Brexit he is proposing today. And unlike Theresa May he will try and sell his reasons for doing so.
Grammar matters! If you turn up to a law court dressed in a dirty t shirt and jeans, it shows disrespect. If you comment in appalling English. That matters too. It shows disrespect for the blogger.
So people will not read what you write.


Here are some tricks for you to consider:

Nouns: if you want to be clever, use a noun instead of a verb.
“he is shameless enough to u turn”.
Or use a verb instead of a noun:
“We are aiming to meet our target of 100 new builds”
Or what about using nouns as adjectives?
“...which will identify projects and appropriate delivery partners...”
Or adjectives as nouns?
“Objectives of the demographic are:”
Or make abstract nouns plural?
“We observe many kinds of behaviours in the mentally ill.”


If you do this, it makes you look clever. Psychologists do it all the time. So long as you put “syndrome” on the end: RBS (Restless behaviours syndrome), ADS (Anaerobic disorders syndrome).
People who are gourmets in the English Language do not lower themselves like this.

We banquet on the simple.

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