Good English and a Bad Blog Post

So, here I am rapidly typing away in my physics lesson because I just looked at Managebac and discovered that I had to do a blog post in response to our reading last night and all I’ve done is a small paragraph answering half a question.

Good English and Bad was eyebrow-pluckingly boring, if that even is English. That being said, it was a little bit interesting knowing the roots of our language and how it really is a bunch of gibberish that a few people have made up and others have just followed.

The questions for us are: Given all the anomalies in the English Language, what is the author saying suggesting about standards of usage? How does his discussion make you feel about your own lapses in grammar?

Within this essay, the author is suggesting that our standards of usage of English are developed because those before us say that the language should be communicated a certain way and others follow, eventually creating rules. He also conveys his disagreement with the implementation of Latin grammar and influence.

Since I have grown up learning English and only English, these rules have never had a negative effect on me. As nice as it would be for verbs to be the same whether they are past, present, future or plural, I have never known anything else and as a result I have naturally adopted it. I make mistakes every now and then, but it has never really bothered me.

I don’t look forward to reading more essays like this, but I do look forward to the knowledge and understanding I attain from them. Time to get this post up before I get detention.