Perverse Grammar
Over at Design Observer, Michael Erard has a terrific meditation on sentence diagramming and its link to Catholic schooling. Reporting on a new book by Kitty Burns Florey, Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences, Erard reveals the source of his own attraction to the practice:
I liked diagramming sentences for a distinctly different reason: it’s kind of kinky.
More kink here.