"I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether."
Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
This is a summary of why I despise the subject of English Language. Here is a subject in which you read a piece of literature, and often a very fine piece, and you flip it around and shake it about a bit and make it mean a hundred different things. For me, authors usually write so that one can enjoy what they are reading, not take it apart. If authors do want a meaning to come out I think it must usually be only one, not a hundred from various perspectives.
I think that English should consist of two things: Creative writing and reading. And maybe a little time to discuss. This would make it far more interesting.
