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b_b  ·  3712 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Are You a Grammar Nerd? What's Your Score?

Don't you find that style often supersedes text book grammatical correctness? Form conveys content that is sometimes additive to the words themselves; subtext, perhaps, that can only be conveyed through the author's unique description. This, however, is often not given over to putting one's commas, periods, conjunctions, and prepositions in the pre-agreed upon places. (And notice the Oxford comma, which I am quite fond of! [Or, "of which I am quite fond," if we're being huge nerds.])