normal people will read a book and say " wow that was powerful... so much meaning..." an english teacher will read a book and say "pshaw, another run on sentence!  This person has terrible grammar"  of course if the english teacher was writing his/her comment it wouldn't look anything similar to what i just wrote.  no no, i'm just wondering when the point of language stopped being to communicate with other people?   when the point of stories stopped being to tell a good yarn? when the point essays stopped being to explain something? and when the point of all of that started being to put your commas in the right place and not put "p"s in front of the page numbers when you are citing a quote?  when did coloring get to the point where it was more important to color in the lines than to make something beautiful?