10.23.2009

"I" before "E"-at a dick...

Now, I've heard it said more than once that proper spelling, grammar, a lack of profanity and all that other good shit was integral to any type of written communication, especially that which expects to be taken even half seriously...and that this principle extends online, even to opinionated message boards (that's a new synonym I'm finna start using for the hated word that describes these kinds of sites...'preciate it, D...) like this one. To that, I say 'blow me'. I can type however the motherfuck I want...

Yes, the way I talk on here (and in real life, most times) ain't exactly the King's english at all. The issue isn't my knowledge of proper English mechanics, I could actually write in an extremely cogent and grammatically sound manner if I so chose...I just don't give a fuck, that's all. I mean hell, it wouldn't even sound like me, I don't think. A little stylized typesmithing really shouldnt stand in the way of a valid point, yamean? Long as it's semi-relevant, I feel I can let whatever southern-fried bullshit I wish fly from my g1 keyboard...

See, when I spend my 15 minutes a day typin to y'all, I feel like I'm talkin to my friends, not giving an english symposium. It's aight to use the word 'aight'. umf is way more a locker room than a classroom, and I'm not gettin a grade for this, so making my online voice sound like my offline one shouldn't be a big problem. Even if your dialect of english ain't exactly the same as mine, context clues go a loooong way both online and off, and as long as all my jive is reasonably intelligible, goes to a point, gets a giggle, or makes you put on your thinking cap (either literal or figurative) its all good, dig?

People make automatic assumptions about the level of a mafucka intellegence just because of informal speech, and I think that's wrong. I've heard utter bullshit spoken in the most proper of terms with great sentence structure, but the technical accuracy of the speech made the words no more right...so, hell...if I wanna leave off a few "g's" or throw out a few "yall's" or more than a few "fucks" or a few run on sentences like this one...I think I have the right. When I write a resume, a application essay, or a fuckin term paper, I'll be letter-perfect from start to finish...but til then, fuck the grammar police...the regular ones too if there's time lol...

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