It wasn’t going to be hard—it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I’d done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospec… - Jasper Fforde

Preservation without expenditure is worthless.

"Oh!" said Landen, reading a letter. "A rejection from my publisher. They didn't think Fatal Parachuting Mistakes and How to Avoid Making Them Again was what they had in mind for self-help."
"I guess their target audience doesn't include dead people."
"You could be right."

To a text-based life-form, unpredictable syntax and poor grammar is a source of huge discomfort. Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can’t walk to the bathroom. Poor syntax is even worse. Change word order and a sentence useless for anyone Yoda except you have.