Today I took some quizzes on some stuff, and an ac-dec test, and we had band, and I decided I like Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

True story:

MICHELLE: I hate when people don't use adverbs right.
TROY: Don't you mean "correctly?"
( dramatic pause )
( hysterical laughter and self-enmity from both parties ensue and last for the duration of an immeasureable passage of time )

That got me thinking. (Note: That sentence is ironic; you'll see why in a bit.) In society today, we've degraded English into a series of passive verb clauses. We don't use active verbs anymore, as if certain things lose their properties as objects at all. (EDIT: Look at that terribly extraneous prepositional phrase! I suck.)

For instance, we say "That made me angry" instead of "That angered me." Why? Because we like adjectives, and not verbs. We turn everything into descriptors ("gay," "whack," "dumbstuff," etc.) It's kind of dumb. Let us attempt to use more active verbs in casual conversation, nicht?

Sometimes I wish the wind would just carry me away to somewhere far off, somewhere I've never been. In this way I am analogous to a frail female literary protagonist. Isn't that funnnn. Yea dude.

I exude a terrible stench this day; I must soon remedy this problem. (Two simple clauses separated by a semi-colon are dumbstuff.)

This was officially the grammar post.

Good bye.

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