Links from today’s snotmail advertising…
Part 1: Grammar lessons for pop stars
Part 3: Detention, for rhyming and other crimes
Part 2: “F” for flaccid writing
Part 4: Hall pass granted
In the last part, she says:
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The ultimate hall pass, though, goes to the Rolling Stones for “Satisfaction.”
“I can’t get any satisfaction” would be correct, but it is utterly without soul. To be grammatical here would be to write Muzak instead of music. It would be completely unsatisfying, not unlike the Britney Spears cover of this same song.
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HOWEVER, according to my Existential Philosophy professor, “no satisfaction” was what the Stones were really seeking! In Existentialist terms, “satisfaction” is a Bad Thing for it is only when one is DISsatisfied that true enlightenment can take place. Or something like that. Which means that the Stones grammar was, in fact, correct!
So there.
