The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.
Quotes about grammars (3 Quotes)
... among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.