a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment by Devac
Devac  ·  892 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: June 15, 2022

I'm not arguing for proper grammar or nit-picking rules, especially in our informal setting, but as someone who has to pass exams on those higher registers, I have no option but to know those rules. veen is/was in the same boat, hence the comment.

Examinations aside, from my experience with foreign languages, it's heaps more important to know vocab than grammar beyond simple tenses/conditionals, but even then, communication will be predicated on other's willingness to go along.





kleinbl00  ·  892 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm not saying you are. I'm saying that any official case against grammar beyond the most egregious is made without standing.

I literally had to google "list of adverbs" because my brain does not think taxonomically when it comes to words. "Speedily-painted" "roughly-hewn" "viciously-sharp" are all perfectly acceptable English constructions.

Not that it matters. I seriously doubt grammar has been accounted for in Dall-E in the way we're discussing - it's just got a gazillion Markov runs through a huge dataset.

Devac  ·  892 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I literally had to google "list of adverbs" because my brain does not think taxonomically when it comes to words.

Fair. I suppose it's unfair of me to shoot from the hip after a year of classical languages and heavy IELTS revisions.