I write for many reasons, to communicate many things. And yet, much of what I wish to communicate does not seem to be expressible within the ordinary conventions of composition as I have learned them and mastered then in the long years of my education. As I grow older, more experienced, perhaps even more mature, I sense that many of the things I want to say do not always "fit" into the communication vehicles I have been taught to construct (1).Grammar B has been with us for a while, says Weathers, citing examples from Blake up to the then present of 1976. "The precedent of using Grammar B in prose and the grand demonstrations of Grammar B in latter-day fiction/poetry coalesced in the emergence of the "new journalism..." Weathers credits Tom Wolfe's "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline-Baby" in a 1963 issue of Esquire for "establishing Grammar B as a truly significant alternative in our time" (3).
Twenty years later, we posit the Internet as an amazingly similar alternative. Weathers describes the following features of Grammar B: