Crystel's Myth-Folklore Blog

Grammatical Lessons Over  Prescriptivists and Descriptivists by Andreea S. Calude For this week I decided to do a Story Lab over language, grammar, and punctuation. This decision came to me after having completed and receiving revisions on my first story. One of my biggest corrections needed was that of grammar. How to word things and realizing I was switching tenses, were both problems I needed to correct. After watching the TEDEd videos, I have realized that language is continuously revolving and how complex grammar actually is! Seeing how languages have formed and stemmed essentially from each other is amazing. One thing about grammar that really caught me was realizing that the last time when I was taught grammar was years ago in middle school. Therefore it makes sense why I missed such things and also why colleges encourage the taking of an intensive writing course. The video I posted above, and ones similar, will definitely be one I reference when writing my next story...

There once lived a group of women who seeked roots, herbs, and other wild food to feed their village. One day, on a trip home they became hungry and decided to eat something from the fields. One woman was so nice enough to share the little herbs and roots she had picked that day. The herbs and roots were so divine to taste because the woman took the time to pick the ripest.   The woman, who had picked all the delicious herbs and food, over heard the other women talking about her. They made her throw away her wonderful herbs because they were jealous their's were not as great and this really saddened her. She decided that she wasn't going to listen to them and ran into the woods where she came upon a hare. "Give me some water that I may drink", she requested of the hare. The hare responded that he had borrowed the cup from his uncle lion and she could not drink from it. Once again she asked only to be met with the same reply. At this point she was pretty f...