Grammar

[Paul Mackin]

Thanks, Will. Seems to me the Moms has got the course ordering exactly
right. Grammar as belief, grammar as analysis, grammar as use. P-listers
have reached the final stage.

			P.

On 20 Sep 2000, Will Layman wrote:

> Paul and all --
> 
> I believe that "the Moms" in INFINITE JEST founded a society of "grammarians."  Quickly opening the book, I came to footnote 54, regarding her three required grammar classes at the tennis class:  "Prescriptive Grammar (Grade 10), Descriptive Grammar (11), Grammar and Meaning (12)."
> 
> Just thinking about and handling The Jest again, I can smell Lemon Pledge evaporating in the September sun . . . .
> 
> Will Layman (WillL at fieldschool.org and wkljd at earthlink.net)
> 
> Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
>    On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Tyrone Slothrop wrote:
> 
>    > I been very sorry.
>    > --- David Simpson <dsimpson at condor.depaul.edu> wrote:
>    > >
>    > > Dear Tyrone: "Grammar" is a noun. Your subject line
>    > > should be "grammatical
>    > > mistakes."
>    > >
>    > > yours truly, the style police
> 
>    Does anyone remember what Avril Incandenza's (the Moms) occupation was in
>    Infinite Jest. I think she was a professor of proscriptive grammar. Or was
>    it PREscriptive grammar? That was a wonderful book, full of wonderful
>    touches like that.
> 
>                    P.
>