Uncle Jazzbeau’s Gallimaufrey

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Raya’s Dungeon has got to be the strangest prescriptivist website I’ve ever run across. While I personally like the idea of a grammatical dominatrix, Raya and her three chapters (so far) may not be for everybody.

Don’t be fooled by outward appearances. This is not your usual glimpse into the convolutions of the English language. This is, as the name implies, a dungeon. And Raya is the cruel dungeon mistress. If you enter these depths, you will be stretched on the rack of nouns and adverbs, pierced by the darts of exclamation marks and *shudder* commas. You will be impaled upon the prongs of teasers and *gasp* voice. You will be tortured by allusions to redundancy and possession ... yes, possession. I have warned you. Enter these halls at your own peril. If you survive, you may emerge, pale and shaken (by laughter), possessed by a new knowledge that might, just might, limber your tongue and jumpstart your pen.

I particularly like the alternate usage of delimiting asterisks instead of <b> or <strong> tags. She also seems, er, well, like totally addicted to ellipses, which don’t really mark the omission of any words per se, but are kind of like super-commas. Her site is being hosted by an MMORPG site.