Yes, yes, don't all shout at once! English is an ever-changing language. But does it have to be spiralling quite as quickly into the gutter as it is now? The 'rules' of communication are made to be broken, updated and played with. Agreed. There is a difference, however, between the way today's sub-teen-sucking-up-world, with its 'Yeah, naah, yeah. Umm, well, yeah!' dialogue, with its strange use in the media (that beast whose JOB it is to communicate and who continually gets it oh, so wrong), the code that passes for a language in the ghettoes of the U. S. of A and the way someone of the calibre of Truman Capote, Jack Kerouac, and Peter Carey and perhaps even that Shakepeare chap played with the structure and rhythm of language. Ahhh. That was a very long and clumsy sentence. But at least the clauses were in the right places.
Of course, all school kids will tell you that if Shakespearean English were still spake today, their chore of understanding it in school would be eased. Considerably. Do we really WANT to continue making communication a more and more difficult task in the future? English has now taken over from French as the language of business and perhaps, Mandarin will do the usurping in the future. Everyone WANTS to speak English, but 'well'? Perhaps not. Is language a communication device or one which, like that mosquito phone ring, shuts out a sector of the world from understanding?
This site will collate and provide for you many resources, not just useful for those who wish to be paid writers, but for those who struggle with the notion of 'grammar'. We will tell you the 'why' behind the rule if it seems to help.
We will also blow the whistle on people in the media who shouldn't be allowed to open their mouths to speak in public for the bad example they set. You will find resources on this site, news of money for wordsmiths, contracts and all sorts of material that you can use.
Welcome to the site. Email me your comments and questions and let's hope that this is not really the 'last bastion' of effective communication through the English language.
Wendy Rawady
Quite a parade of losses for the entertainment industry: Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and now Michael Jackson, the latter being a totally unexpected death. 
