Fellow grammar snobs, I feel I must resign from your ranks.

Sure, we’ve had some good times—not just when we judged the masses, but especially when we got the chance to snicker about one another’s mistakes.

I do still believe that good communication is important to success. But while you and I were bickering about Byzantine rules, we didn’t even notice that our Byzantine Empire had vanished.

A Farewell to Precision: Stop Judging and Start Experimenting

Grammatical perfection, at this point in the Internet age, has been slain by speed and buried by quantity. Good communication isn’t dead, but yesterday’s notion of good communication is dead. It’s being replaced by visuals, by sounds, by textual shorthands, by a wondrous palette of new possibility.

And while we’ve been judging 13-year-olds for writing “your” instead of “you’re,” those teens are developing a capacity to speak in a language that’s probably superior to ours. I raised an eyebrow when I recently saw how well my young niece and nephew collaborate on games like Minecraft: It dawned on me that they’ve already developed some forms of intuition and intelligence and communication that are beyond my own reach.

Indeed, the rules for storytelling, interaction…

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