At long last grammar is made fun for the masses thanks to the grammar lesson by Weird Al. No longer are we stuck giving plain grammar lessons about the basics of pronouns nouns, verb conjugation and the like. Ever try to teach grammar to middle or high school students? It involves a level of creativity known to only a few, for making grammar both entertaining and educational is intellectually and physically draining. Let’s not kid ourselves here: copious amounts of wine help as fuel. But teaching, learning, remembering and most importantly, IMPLEMENTING proper grammar on a daily basis is difficult! Courtesy of the 20th in the 21st-century’s most peculiar musical artist Weird Al Yankovic we have a mass appeal approach to rectifying so many grammar wrongs. Yes, the man who brought us “Eat It” and “Like a Surgeon” has singlehandedly started a grammar revolution, a “gramolution”, if you will, thus making us forget our annoyances over tolerating his decades of sometimes painful musical parodies. Perhaps before it was only grammarians who would walk through life noting the grammar fallacies that face them on a daily basis. This country is rife with the horrible mangling of the English language in speech and print, and for those of us who retained basic grammar lessons from high school, these errors present a near constant migraine-inducing state of existence. “Ain’t” is deemed a socially acceptable word and approved for Scrabble but “Jedi” isn’t: really?!? “10 items or fewer” NOT “10 items or less” is an obvious one. Misusing ”your” and “you’re” is aggravating to say the least. And let’s not forget egregious, comma misplacement. Or leaving your participles dangling (and yes, that grammar joke was intentional, for those who caught it). And apostrophes…..oh dear heaven, apostrophe catastrophes. They’re called possessives, people: use them correctly! A contraction does not show possession! But I digress…. thankfully so many more grammar issues have now been pointed out to the world in a fun and lighthearted way. We ardent grammarians no long need to suffer in silence and can sleep a bit easier at night knowing that maybe, just maybe, someone will think twice to ensure basic grammar correctness in his or her everyday speech or writing.
Here it is, in all of it’s grammatical glory…..we present to you “Work Crimes” by Weird Al. Enjoy. Share. Enjoy again.
http://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc?list=RD8Gv0H-vPoDc
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