In my composition class last week, we were given an assignment that required us to write an essay without using proper grammar or English. At first, I was deeply concerned for my professor. But he later explained that he wants us to write an essay based on our own voice. The way we talk to our friends, our texting culture, abbreviations, slang, ect.

He explained that he wanted to give us the opportunity to be able to write an essay this semester, the way we wanted to. So if we were normally talking to our friends about it, that’s how he wanted us to read it off the page. This further went into explanations about how certain people in history believed that writing should be this way, but furthermore, it got me thinking…

“what if we all started talkin and writin da way we wanted 2 without any regards to punctuatgion grammar the way ppl interpret it or them judgin us for it”

The statement above translates to: What if we all started talking and writing the way we wanted to, without any regard to punctuation, grammar, the way people interrupt it, or if they judged us for it. Well, that’s basically what our assignment was.

But what if humans were never taught how to read and write like we do today? When you think about it, there’s no right or wrong way one talks or writes. There have just been things that people decided to be rules and now everyone follows them. 

I’m thankful we have these rules in place. I wouldn’t know how everyone would function in today’s society if everyone just knew different words but put them together differently than one another.