Sentences.

Sentences. Writing well. Something we all strive to achieve. To communicate thoroughly and well is the foundation of humanity. However with the invention of computers, the internet and social networking sites, people have begun to move away from the art of expressing oneself well.

Sentences written on paper and sentences being vocalised are two seemingly correlated affairs, yet at times may seem worlds apart. The popular nature of text messages, Skype and Facebook, have caused the two to mould into one brobdingnagian (BBT fans appreciate!) jumble of filthy, unrefined sentences. Yet one may wonder: how is it that we are able to perfectly understand each other as we are speaking face-to-face? In a conversation, a person is able to constantly and consistently adjust and alter their sentences with a surprisingly brisk pace. However on written paper, you have one shot to get your message across. You cannot repeat the sentence you just wrote with a more clearly defined one, you must alter it before it lays itself out onto the barren white of processed wood chips that we all know to be paper.

As a student, one of the earliest (and important) lessons you will receive in your lifetime is how to construct a sentence (provided you have retained the basics of the alphabet and formulation of simple words), yet so many of us have forgotten what the root of a sentence is. Every sentence must contain a subject, a verb, and then the rest can consist of an object or a complement. Obviously we have found there to be many exceptions where the English language just tries to defy its own rules. Help! Seems to be a perfectly fine sentence, with the subject and object all rolled into it.

Stop.

I will stop here as I feel as if this post is getting to be too long, and perhaps sounding more akin to a lesson to primary school children, rather than being a humble blog post. Before any of you has the opportunity to point it out, I am well aware that this post was interwoven with irony, clear from the beginning where it began with fragments rather than sentences.

At this juncture in time, I will remind you that I have not decided where to veer off with this blog. Until that decision is made (although there is the very real possibility that it will never happen), I will continue to post as I please.

After all, in this dreamscape, I am the architect.

O