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My post earlier this week, “Fear does not stop death, it stops life,” drew the fire of the language police. The title was a quote, and I knew it was a comma splice, but I wasn’t going to change it or indicate that I knew the grammatical error. It was bad enough that I could not find the author of it. To keep the language police happy, here is the quote and my acknowledgment that it is an error in grammar. “Fear does not stop death, it stops life” [sic]. Sic is Latin “as such.” The square brackets indicate the quoter added the text. As a writer and one-time college professor of English, I think there are times you should violate the rules of grammar. For example, he ain’t the brightest. It’s interesting because it says two things at once. The person speaking probably isn’t the most intelligent, either, especially in the use of the English language. The person being spoken of at least in the eyes of the speaker isn’t all that smart either. It could also be argued that the community where this is being spoken is not that all worried about proper English usage either.