Banning ideas and authors is not a ‘culture war’ – it’s fascism

My garden gate

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/13/african-american-studies-republican-ban-florida?CMP=ShareAndroidApp_Other

The failure to teach about structural racism will make Black children born into poverty feel that their parents and grandparents are responsible for their own impoverished position relative to white children, and so will make Black children feel “anguish or other forms of psychological distress” because of “actions … committed in the past by other members of the same race”. The “anguish” and “psychological distress” these laws forbid are only anguish felt by the dominant racial group, white Americans.

Wake me up for grammar

From my notebook

If writing had not been invented could we   have split the infinitive?

I have not been able to split the atom as yet but I’ve started by splitting the infinitive

You can split up a compound sentence into several parts as long as each part has a verb in it.

What a pity we learned to write because it means children have to learn grammar.

Does spoken speech have grammar?

Why does grammar have to be universal?

Why do sentences begin with the capital letter now that we have done away with capital punishment?

What does capital mean?

London has  long been the capital city  but not all capital punishment took place in London. Discuss, ideally with yourself.

(this is part of the entrance exam for university) Please don’t report  me to quora

Can you get irritable bowel syndrome from using too many colons and semicolons in your writing?

Language and reality, what is the connection if any?

Please don’t quote me on any of this

Write a short essay on the comma without using the comma in your essay and yet keeping the grammar correct

Quotation Marks and Direct Quotations : Quotations

This is from the University of Sussex United Kingdom

Now notice something else which is very important: a quotation is set off by quotation marks and nothing else. A sentence containing a quotation is punctuated exactly like any other sentence apart from the addition of the quotation marks. You should not insert additional punctuation marks into the sentence merely to warn the reader that a quotation is coming up: that’s what the quotation marks are for.

https://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/punctuation/quotes/marks