*The biggest part of grammar, is revision and cooperation, I thought I would post Roadkill_Spatula's suggested revisions to my original essay to prove some kind of point. The suggestions are in italics.Grammar is what I define as the rules of language. They have been around for hundreds of years. The purpose of this essay is not inform, however; it is here for a Socratic debate.
So why rules for written language, anyway?
Is it so a message can be understood more clearly? Clearly, misspelled and mistaken words as well as sentence structure can majorly
[neologism; maybe use 'significantly'] affect or distract from the message a writer may be trying to send. What makes our language functional? If someone understands what a person is trying to say (or write) but feels it should be done more effectively, is there an efficiency factor involved?
Functional hardly means efficient. Grammar holds the status quo of written language as an accepted way of communication. Dunno if tha is righ. Straying from the rules of language means one is inventing his or her own language or language that has become culturally accepted
[ambiguous; do you mean 'straying from his or her own culturally accepted language'?].
There are so many way to invent variations in language; it is such a fluid and fickle thing. That is why one can never say that something is well written. What is well written? Something that properly adheres to grammar while telling a story or essay
[do we tell essays?] or one
[one what? need to use a noun here or repeat 'something'] that strays into new territory while inventing new rules with the intention of being original? Original is a loose word, built on concepts of those before them
[whom? No referent for 'them'], broken and discarded languages before them
[whom? And I can’t tell if 'broken and discarded' are adjectives or verbs here].
Ones
[Languages? Rules? Books? Authors?] you would find in a bargain section at a book store
Token Question: What is the purpose of grammar, in your own definition? What does it mean to you?