There are definitely times when you’re writing needs to be more formal and adhere to all the rules of grammar, but it really depends on who you’re writing for and what the medium is.

Sometimes I think of the best literature I’ve read and how often they bent the rules to make a point. And then how many things they do end up becoming acceptable and part of the language.

I guess I enjoy words.

I don’t usually make a habit of commenting on posts that are a couple of years old, but I just ran across this one for the first time, and wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed it.

I think that sometimes it makes sense to take that risk in breaking rules of language, in business writing, in blog writing, in communicating ideas.

It’s the unique, the meaningful, the creative, and sometimes the nonsensical that makes our thoughts stand out. And, as your state in your comment, if breaking the rules of grammar, of spelling, of word usage can improve our communications, then we should consider fracturing a few words and sentences.

The main thing is to be able to communicate more effectively. If bending the rules helps in communication or at least doesn’t hinder it I’m all for expanding on the language.

But you should consider the language as a living being, not as a fixed combination of rules and words that you see in a vocabulary.

The language evolves, and sometimes takes forms that you may consider obscure, obscene or abnormal. But the nature of language evolution is to probe the word order, word-forming particles, suffixes, etc.

Take the kind of word-building when two words are formed to form a single word, even when it is first used with a hyphen.

Then again, you truly can use the grammar at your leisure if you understand how it lives. Inversion (inverted word order) you can use to emphasize a simple, otherwise unnoticeable, sentence.

But when it comes to writing for the web, you should also use semantically correct markup, which, unlike grammar, can’t be worn inside out. Search engines do trust pages with semantically correct markup (because it helps the visitors to understand what the page about and the page author has definitely spent some time to format the page).