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celticdragonfly ([personal profile] celticdragonfly) wrote2006-01-18 09:31 am
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Grammatical Precision is Sexy

I found this in [livejournal.com profile] shadow_5tails's journal, linked by a friend of mine. I posted it to [livejournal.com profile] sapiosexual, but I thought the rest of my flist might be interested as well.

watch your tense and case
oh baby
i want to be your direct object.
you know, that is to say
i want to be on the other
side of all the verbs i know
you know how to use.

i've seen you conjugate:
i touch
you touched
you heard
she knows
who cares

i'm interested in
a few decent prepositions:
above, over, inside, atop,
below, around and
i'm sure there are more
right on the tip of
your tongue.

i am ready to spend
the present perfect
splitting your infinitive
there's an art to the way you
dangle your participle and

since we're being informal it's okay to
use a few contractions, like
wasn't (going to)
shouldn't (have)
and a conjunction:
but (did it anyway)

and i'm really really glad
you're not into dependent
clauses since all i'm really
interested in is your
bad, bad grammar
and your exclamation point.

- by Daphne Gottlieb

[identity profile] joyeuse13.livejournal.com 2006-01-18 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, that's fantastic!!! I want it set to music so I can sing it. :)