Barely Literate's definitions

comparative grammar

To imagine language as a thick head of human hair, as found on Michael Landon, Carrot Top, or Cher, and exhaustively split and redefine each strand and follicle for the sole purpose of making something that is hard even harder.

I thought I knew how to speak, read, and write until I studied comparative grammar.

by Barely Literate December 27, 2007