I didn’t know until five minutes ago: it’s National Grammar Day.
A day without grammar are without day grammar a.
Thursday, March 4, 2021
National Grammar Day
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Nancy, October 19, 1950.
“Who are we as a country?”
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Words to live by
Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat.
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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Νέος ἐφ’ ἡμέρῃ ἥλιος. [The sun is new every day.]
Heraclitus
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Every day is a new deal.
Harvey Pekar, “Alice Quinn”
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Nos plus grandes craintes, comme nos plus grandes espérances, ne sont pas au-dessus de nos forces, et nous pouvons finir par dominer les unes et réaliser les autres. [Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.]
Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again
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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try.
Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living
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I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one.
J.D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction
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I’m not afraid to get it right
I turn around and I give it
one more try
Sufjan Stevens, “Jacksonville”
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L’attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité. [Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.]
Simone Weil, in a letter
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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Νέος ἐφ’ ἡμέρῃ ἥλιος. [The sun is new every day.]
Heraclitus
*
Every day is a new deal.
Harvey Pekar, “Alice Quinn”
*
Nos plus grandes craintes, comme nos plus grandes espérances, ne sont pas au-dessus de nos forces, et nous pouvons finir par dominer les unes et réaliser les autres. [Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.]
Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again
*
Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try.
Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living
*
I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one.
J.D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction
*
I’m not afraid to get it right
I turn around and I give it
one more try
Sufjan Stevens, “Jacksonville”
*
L’attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité. [Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.]
Simone Weil, in a letter
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I thought that grammar refers to proper word usage and syntax to word order or arrangement. If so, your last sentence better illustrates a day without syntax. No?
I think of syntax as governed by grammar. But if not, how about “A day without grammar are without day grammar a.”
This point has been bothering me all day. It’s better to say that syntax is part of grammar. I’m going to add an are to the sentence in the post to more clearly foreground grammar. Thanks for questioning what I wrote in this post.
I got wondering what exactly grammar is too--looked it up, and it's the whole shebang.
Commenting here, though, to share this ad for grammar dot com:
"All the grammar you need to succeed in life™."
It cracks me up, that TM. (Should it be outside the period? Applying to the whole sentence? Or, maybe they are only claiming "life™".)
I always told students who said “My grammar is terrible” that if that were really the case, they wouldn’t be able to put together a sentence. I’ve never heard anyone say they need more.
The Chicago Manual of Style says that trademark names don’t require the use of the trademark sign. Slogans? I don’t know. But yes, that slogan looks ridiculous with ™. Someone should compete: “All the grammar you need to succeed.” (“In life?” Where else?)
In my looking up, I found some generic equivalents for brand names. Chicago recommends using generic names when possible:
Bufferin: buffered aspirin
Ping-Pong: table tennis
Pyrex: heat-resistant glassware
Sharpie: permanent marker
Pass the heat-resistant glassware, please!
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