May I love you,will you let me know?

May I love you,will you let me know?
I do not want to waste my life on earth
I will not let my feelings for you show
Nor deal you any dreadful. unkind blow
Instead I’d give affection and my mirth
So laughter and  good will would overflow
May I love you,will you let me know?
Shall we share our lives till we are earth?

Shakespeare would be  hardpressed to conceive

Shakespeare would be   hardpressed to  conceive
The story of the Presidents’  deceits.
Of a   telling plot he’d be bereaved
To  emphasise the massive self conceit

It’s certainly post modern in its style
The story changes even as he speaks
There is no truth at all  just what beguiles
The father of the galleons of leaks

No expert can advise as there are none
Everyone can tweet and will be heard
We are all now equal  and we’re done
Most stupid thoughts of humans now are shared

When the experts and the scholars   tell
More important is, will stories sell?

English grammar and Latin

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How English became English – and not Latin

 

“Despite Webster, the Latinate model survived into the twentieth century in the English classroom. H. W. Fowler, whose Modern English Usage (1926) was the most influential guide of the 20th century, read Classics at Oxford and spent some time as a Classics teacher before turning to lexicography. His linguistic prescriptions are soaked through with edicts derived from Latin grammar. The Latin use of the nominative case following the verb to be prompts Fowler to condemn English constructions such as it is me; according to Fowler, this ‘false grammar’ should properly be it is I. Fowler’s prescription continues to find loyal adherents today (if you are one – try saying it out loud); ironically, it is probably to blame for the widespread overcompensation (or ‘hypercorrection’) which leads to the preference for incorrect I in phrases such as ‘between you and me’.”

Prescriptive grammar

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“According to linguists Ilse Depraetere and Chad Langford, “A prescriptive grammar is one that gives hard and fast rules about what is right (or grammatical) and what is wrong (or ungrammatical), often with advice about what not to say but with little explanation” (Advanced English Grammar: A Linguistic Approach, 2012).”