There are two kinds of people when it comes to perceptions regarding language. The first kind, closer in nature to you and me, is of those who use language as a tool to convey meaning (or anything that can be safely confused as meaning). The second kind is those who do the same thing as the first, but with a difference. Instead of just merely conveying meaning, they like to "dress and decorate" meaning with their language in an attempt to draw the attention of their audience to specific facets of "meaning" that they believe are more significantly meaningful than the rest.
When a loser enters the first category, the result is albeit amusing, but in a pitiable sort of way. Than you gets the feeling that someone hitted him with a hard stone making him fell to the ground with birds flowing around his head. When a loser enters the second kind, the result however is purely hillarious. Because all of a sudden, your verticality gets converted into your horizontality with the consequent catharsis of blood and other bodily fluids overwhelming your neurological balance into a state of pure bodily pandemonium.
How relevant is grammar in everyday life, really? You get hurt, whether you fall or whether you fells. Things would perhaps get ugly if you said "someone is felling me" but until that time everything goes well. If you take grammar very seriously and insist on correctness all the time, then the number of things you have to keep in mind- prepositions, articles, singular and plural, tenses and verbs and what not. For example, any sentence that starts with "If" must be complemented with a clause that starts with "then" (not "than"). Otherwise, it's a fragment, not a sentence, and the clause does not have a transitive verb.
So now see this.
I am boy of 20 year old age who isn't legalized to drinking alcoholic beverage. But I still have it the every week and nobody caughts me. That makes complete sense from the point of view of deriving meaning from it. Yes, perhaps you wouldn't want that to go down in your diary post where Such Sen lurks just to save your a-s from comments that sort of deface the usual backscratching "Oh what a lovely post you have written which I read with my brains switched off and stored in chloroform" comments that you usually would prefer.
In my personal opinion, except for presentability, horrible grammar does not really affect anyone of us in our daily lives. If you're thick skinned enough to ignore the scorn and general patronization that people with poor language skills are subject to, then you have a wonderful life ahead of you. You are then empowered to express your "believes" and your "thinkings" with complete carefreedom.
So why do we have grammar? That's a very interesting question. I am certain you will agree with the fact that some kind of grammatical structure is essential to keep the language flowing and to create a sort of "template" for comprehension.
For example: "Was entering Ram house the Laxman when time six the of" would perhaps serve as a good "sort out the words to make a complete sentence" exercise but if we started throwing words randomly on a regular basis, the result would be https://MouthShut.com.
But beyond setting up a sort of rhythm of expression and providing a discipline or 'template' for comprehension, how much of a role does grammar play?
A simple illustration will explain. There's something called the "Royal order of Adjectives". So when you are talking of a "big, round, yellow, sun hat", Messeurs Wren and Martin would both collapse in horror if it were not "big, round, yellow, sun hat" and were, for instead, "round, yellow, sun, big hat".
What conclusion do we reach? It is better to use grammar as a tool then to think it is some kinds of handcuff, which we has to obeys. I wouldn't particularly enjoy a situation where every punctuation mark, every word, the tense of every verb were under scrutiny. At the same time, I wouldn't want to be a loser pretending to be some kind of "typocrat" (Sanjoy, love you for teaching me that word) and scribbling longwinded, mostly absurd strings of non-rhyming non-prose text ("poetry").
The fine balance is typical for every individual and you can't have a rule of thumb for anybody. But that balance has to be found and obeyed by each one alone while at the same time respecting someone else's (granted, with a little bit of wit, sarcasm and scorn).
Think about it.
