marnanightingale | Also, Strunk/White OTP, or questionable smut editing thoughts

At least,

fairestcat says I have to explain why reading my Happy Shiny Illustrated Copy Of Strunk and White made me think of buggery.

(Yes, I mean besides the fact that everything makes me think of sodomy sooner or later. Hush.)

So. Breaking the rules of style is a bit like committing buggery.

1) Let's face it, it's an at least slightly unnatural and arguably illicit act we're discussing here. This is part of its charm.

2) You really really DO need to know what you're doing, or it isn't going to work very well and you'll make a huge mess.

3) It is extremely important to minimize the amount of friction involved, or it's just going to be painful.

4) And ultimately? How much YOU may happen to be enjoying yourself is largely irrelevant. When it comes right down to it, the experience that matters is the party of the second part's -- if they aren't enjoying it, you are by definition doing it wrong.

ETA:

angevin2 points out that I am not the first to have made this connection

...Of such of these men as profess the grammar of love, some embrace only the masculine gender, some the feminine, others the common or indiscriminate. Some, as of heteroclite gender, are declined irregularly, through the winter in the feminine, through the summer in the masculine. Some, in the pursuit of the logic of love, establish in their conclusions the law of subject and the law of predicate in proper relation. Some, who have the place of the subject, have not learned how to form a predicate. Some only predicate, and will not await the proper addition of the subject's end...

*goes off whistling to break "the laws of God, and man, and metre" some more*