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You need to know the rules to know how to break them with intention.
Given Lemmy’s demographic we can put it like this:
If you invent an entire programming language from first principles, you’re probably pretty smart.
If you’re in a a class at uni learning C++ and you submit code written in your new language, then you’re going to fail
You need to learn the fundamentals first before you break them.
A young man asked Mozart how to write a symphony. Mozart replied, “You are too young to write a symphony.” The man said, “You were writing symphonies when you were 10 years of age.” Mozart said, “Yes, but I didn’t ask how to do it.”
TLDR;; if you’re a student then you’re a student, if you disagree, don’t ask, just do it and you will be recognized if your aim is true.
To break the rules you gotta first learn the rules.
Yea, it’s just that pedants deep down believe that good grammar is good writing; they don’t understand the difference. Therefore, they’re going to struggle to recognize good writing, and be incapable of producing it.
I was going to ask if that went for lawyers as well, But then I realized it was obvious.
It’s almost like English teachers are supposed to teach traditional writing norms. You know, like, as their jobs or something …
Yeah, you’re not good enough at it to do that.
I think you kinda have to learn the rules and prove you know them before you go wild breaking them.
That’s not always the case. Sometimes a writer is like Jimi Hendrix where there’s no need for elaborate theory backing them because they can just straight up fucking play. But it’s usually the case, and the overwhelming majority of teachers are teaching extremely usual people.
I remember in my one college-level creative writing class I had to read other people’s work and it read like an eight year old wrote it.
I’m gonna say it: Jack Kerouac sucks. I’ve read many different authors, but none have been as annoyingly unreadable as him. You’re supposed to “ride the wave of his thoughts?”. No thanks. To me, that just sounds like a vain excuse for bad writing.
Get your homework published and fight your teacher.
If your essay has a line of reasoning that requires more than a room temperature IQ to follow, you get a C. If a text analyzed by the class requires a whole unit, lectures, and discussions to get a line of reasoning, it is genius.
If you’re going to the trouble of writing something, my assumption is that you want to communicate. We can only communicate clearly with each other, if we all agree on and use the same word spellings and grammar rules. Otherwise, why bother?
One of the more frustrating things I see daily is titles that don’t make it clear whether OP is asking a question, or about to present an explanation.
“Why my dogs throw up in the house” instead of “Why do my dogs throw up in the house*?*”
(I don’t know how to italicize the question mark.)
