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humanodon  ·  3800 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: ungrammatical language is awseome u guys srsly

I recently read this. I think a few of these apply to this article, particularly #1:

    1. Confusing grammar with spelling, punctuation, and usage. Many people who write about grammar seem to think that grammar means “any sort of rule of language, especially writing”. But strictly speaking, grammar refers to the structural rules of language, namely morphology (basically the way words are formed from roots and affixes), phonology (the system of sounds in a language), and syntax (the way phrases and clauses are formed from words). Most complaints about grammar are really about punctuation, spelling (such as problems with you’re/your and other homophone confusion) or usage (which is often about semantics). This post, for instance, spends two of its twelve points on commas and a third on quotation marks.

Anyway, what I think we're seeing is actually the reshaping of the informal register, or perhaps even the emergence of another informal register. Textual representation is certainly a way to play with how the language and its gravity is perceived.