Audrey Chapman

While I’m not suggesting that you get drunk to write all of your essays, the research I’ve done on this topic seems to show that it’s not such a bad idea.

Upholding grammatical conventions doesn’t really matter when it comes to our everyday speech. Personally, I get more satisfaction from people mistakenly attempting to look superior by misusing them or incorrectly correcting others.

The most difficult, yet rewarding task involved in being a copy editor is surprisingly not copy editing.

The hardest part of learning another language isn’t memorizing new words for different concepts, but learning the often strange and confusing syntax of a new language

I’ve always been struck by how odd language is — how meaningless combinations of speech sounds can be strung together in meaningful ways to somehow create an infinite possibility of phrases.

Sometimes when I’m waiting for an appointment, trying to waste five minutes or attempting to annoy my friends and family, I come up with the most gross-sounding sentences that I can possibly think up. Linguists have attempted to pin down what it is that makes certain words sound so unappealing to us.

Before my first linguistics class, I felt an immense frustration at the smallest of grammatical errors. As I began taking more and more courses in the subject that would end up becoming my major, I saw my relationship to grammar transform.