allthingslinguistic:

mustangsally78:

animate-mush:

transgirlsamwinchester:

mylordshesacactus:

charamei:

If writers took every bit of writing advice that was in the format ‘Don’t use X part of the English language’, all English fiction would read like Spot the dog

#Spot chases the ball#the ball chases Spot#the ball conquers nations#the ball still chases spot#see spot run#run spot run#the ball is coming

stop telling ppl to write like hemingway i promise u adverbs are not another face of the dark lord satan its ok

First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing, because verbing weirds language

Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing, because no verbs

Then they for the descriptive, and I silent because verbless and nounless

Then they for me, and, but no

REBLOGGING BECAUSE THE LAST POST IS BRILLIANT.

Obligatory link to Geoff Pullum’s Fear and Loathing of the English Passive (and in video form), in which the particular mythology surrounding the passive is very thoroughly debunked.