MamaBlogger365 - Let's Strike the Word "And" by *Dr Mama* Amber Kinser

I have this idea. What if we were to strike the word “and” from the English language? How terrible would that be? I’m thinking maybe not that terrible. Since I use it to connect and even begin sentences in all of my blogging, and even in my published print writing, in total violation of what I was taught in school, I’d have to rework a lot of things, including how I think and how I tell a story and where ideas begin and end and all that, and how I’d write this very sentence without it.

But I think there would be some serious benefits. I brought this idea to my friend Kelly not long ago. We were sharing stories about the challenge of getting children to a point where they can tell a good story, and the somewhat excruciating experience of hearing the details of their lives as they see it during the years preceding that glorious point. Read more...

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