Andy Kerber

[Christopher R. DiNote @CRDINOTE_Author]

If you find The Hobbit difficult to read, you're functionally illiterate and your parents and your schools failed you.

[Gareth @Garferty]

Genuinely and without malice, don’t be frightened of words. If you don’t entirely follow The Hobbit (I know, I know) or any book then use context, or just look up the words. Accept older ways of speaking and get into it. Open up more stories. The end result is more fun in life.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

The Hobbit is a children’s book, and the fact that so many grown people find the syntax and language difficult just further shows how far we’ve fallen from a cliff intellectually since it was first published in 1937.

[♟️bobert♟️(saw chess) @buffytveit]

just saw the great comet holy shit that was so fucking awesome not enough people are talking about this like how did this lose to Evan fucking Hansen

[J!REH 🏆 @jirehpc]

People can’t read anymore so they just think everything means whatever they want it to mean lol

[maddie rune🪰 @themaddierune]

Jane Austen was a satirist, not a romance writer. Every adaptation that turns her into soft candlelight and longing glances has successfully removed the thing that made her a genius. She was mean. That was the point.

[Andy Kerber @kerbstomp41]

@telephonehigh

[Andrew Gillespie @andrewg5000]

If only a young, perceptive, recently Oscar-nominated movie star had warned people of the dangers of turning movies into unattainable elite events like other art forms like ballet and opera are now

[Andy Kerber @kerbstomp41]

@LevisAckerJeans @Chara_Violet @Somnomnom01 that's what "developed" means.

[Tom Smyth @Tom_Smyth_]

whenever someone on twitter tries to imagine 30 rock plots or dialogue it just hammers home how good that show is because you’re all horrible at it

[🇵🇸 nope @nnnnnnxox]

Literally. Unfortunately they are everything the teachers said they are

[Alex Wayne @TorukVonTrier]

I pretty much disregard anyone who says a movie is "mid". Get real thoughts. Use real words.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

It’s very telling how the only things that get you accused of being “performative” are reading and having a vocabulary. It’s never occurred to these folks that some of us truly enjoy books & cultivating an intellectual life. Don’t let them shame you into abandoning your brain.

[darkacademician @darkacademician]

the soft bigotry of low expectations. “actually, knowing things is classist."

[Violet Rose 🏳️‍⚧️ @Vibutler_]

Understanding how to pronounce even uncommon words is actually an important part of literacy and we shouldn’t be lowering the standards for kids

[Andy Ryan @ItsAndyRyan]

For language pedantry, my rule is whether a useful meaning is being lost. It's handy to have a term than means 'not figurative', so I bemoan 'literally' being applied to metaphors. But I ask defenders of 'decimate' – how often does anyone want to say 'one in ten men were killed'?

[emily north @north0fnorth]

many people have terrible taste in the arts and could benefit from more arts education. getting into stuff many people would find pretentious like classical & jazz music, abstract paintings, niche foreign films, etc. has greatly improved my understanding of what art is capable of

[Soraya Sebghati @SorayaSpaghetti]

I hate that “fandoms” think they are owed something by the people who create what they love. That’s not how creating art works at all actually!

[Hassan @hassaninexile]

God forbid some of us are literate and know how to use the oxford comma.