No need for grams

This isn't a rant about the metric system, or for old people.

This is about grammar, what it represents and what it is used for.

It has been taught to you no matter where is were born, what time or what place. Whether you liked it or not grammar has effected you and you learned if you learned how to speak, listen, or read.

Grammar would not be a problem if everyone in the world all spoke the same language and the same way, but we don't. My problem with grammar is the way it is used. Plainly:

Grammar is used to discriminate.

The 'correct' use of grammar allows you to be in the acceptance of groups. The grammatical groups see it as, 'well this person knows the same rules as me, so that person must be as at least as intelligent as me'. By using 'improper' grammar rules you will be frowned upon and laughed at. By the different grammatical rules others have created, every time you speak you are subjecting yourself to the judgment of your 'intellect' and to some your 'worth'. I find this appalling.

With the world getting more and more smaller, grammatical discrimination needs to end. We all don't speak the same language, we all don't learn the same way. Today's world is a multicultural society without borders. To judge some one on the word order of which they speak should be meaningless, but old habits die hard.

More and more people these days are left out of jobs, apartments and just plain treated badly, because of the judgment of their grammar by others. Yesterday in the US, was Martin Luther King Day, January 19. For those who don't know Dr. King spoke of equality for all races, creeds, religions, and genders among other things. I think that many, if they were to sit down and think about it, would see that this is discrimination and in today's world discrimination needs to end.


For those who are waiting to jump on this post attacking all my grammatical 'mistakes', the internet has a fitting term for these people, Grammar Nazi.