A Corneta

Vou buscar a inspiração às fontes mais estranhas. Quem utilize o Hotmail deve estar familiarizado com uns links para uma série de artigos inúteis (género "como combinar mala com os brincos") que aparecem da parte direita da página inicial, vulgo my MSN. Mas nem tudo é futilidade, entre esses links está um para uma coluna semanal sobre erros de gramática, inglesa no caso, que além de divertida ensina muito. No outro dia o tema era a pobre gramática das letras pop - grammar pop flacid.

Retiro dois excertos (o mais divertidos acho):

"Just listen to Britney Spears. If you're not distracted by the shiny clothes, gratuitous pythons, and gyrating dance moves, the words of their songs are revealed to be weaker than a wall of pudding.
In "Overprotected," Britney sings,

"Say hello to the girl that I am!
You're gonna have to see through my perspective
I need to make mistakes just to learn who I am
And I don't wanna be so damn protected"

Britney might need to make mistakes to learn who she is. But grammar mistakes don't lead to self-discovery, they just make people sound dumb. She should have sung, "Say hello to the girl who I am." "That" is for animals and inanimate objects, such as hair extensions. "


Peter Frampton: '70s icon and sensitive songwriter--sensitive to everyone but his high school English teacher, that is. Although Frampton's lyrics aren't the worst that have ever been written, some fall squarely into the hopelessly confusing category.
A good example is the song, “Can't Take That Away,” which goes like this:

"Like a fool I'd been waiting - until you came along
You made a blind man see
Your love made all the difference
And nobody.... can't take that away from me"

Ignoring the worn-out cliché of the blind man cured by the balm of love, focus on the two last lines. "Your love made all the difference, and nobody can't take that away from me." In other words, everybody can take it away from me. "

The bottom line here is that if you know the rules, you can increase the power of your writing by breaking them. But if you don't have a grip on grammar, you're most likely going to sound stupid.

Link para o artigo

Ninguém está livre de dar os seus tropeções na gramática, ainda ontem vi com horror que tinha escrito "a prepósito" e ao reler os meus posts lá vai mais um pouco de amor-próprio ao verificar atentados à língua e ao estilo. Ok Frampton não é propriamente o Leonard Cohen e gozar com a Britney Spears é algo básico…mas irrecusável!

Ainda tentei puxar pela cabeça para ver se encontrava um exemplo na pop portuguesa (GNR, Sétima Legião, Táxi, sei lá...), mas acho que são todos grupos gramaticalmente correctos.