Degenerative Grammar

Published: May 9, 2016, 12:08 p.m.

b'Degenerative Grammar; by Desir\\xe9e-Debauch\\xe9e Cyntacks & Dec A. D\\u2019Cadence; From Volume CLXXII, Number 2, of Speculative Grammarian, February 2015 \\u2014 Since the 1950\\u2019s, linguistics has been wild with excitement over Chomsky\\u2019s insights, collectively known as \\u201cgenerative grammar.\\u201d As all non-linguists know, however, grammar as speakers encounter it in daily life is actually degenerative. As one prominent analyst (Ellen DeGeneres) has put it, \\u201cEntropy rules.\\u201d (Read by Phineas Q. Phlogiston.)'