me

My name is Ruth and my weapons of choice are sarcasm and good grammar. I like Chuck, Inception, Doctor Who, Richard Siken and reading fiction, nonfiction and IKEA catalogues. I write fiction, fanfiction and poetry, none of them especially well.

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the blog

The blog’s name, Adjectives of Order, as well as the title– “the city sweltering streets”– is from Alexander Teague’s poem of the same name. The order of adjectives, a part of English grammar, refers to the sequence in which adjectives, words of description, are placed: size before age, shape before color, origin before purpose. Still, it becomes slowly evident how inadequate this listing system is. (“He wanted to know if his brothers were lost before/older“; how does one quantify this?)

What I need to remember is this: no matter what the grammar says, it is never enough. Pedantry is no excuse for ignorance.

I post mostly rants about bad grammar, rants about the local newspaper, or wordy posts about the many television shows I watch. I routinely write incredibly long posts attempting to convince phantom readers to watch the show I am currently enamoured with.