The works of an auctor (as opposed to just a writer of, say, lectures, sermons, or even fables or lyric poems) carried auctoritas, or authority. Authority came from the fact that the work possessed two vital qualities: intrinsic worth and authenticity. (Baron, 2001: 51)Now, how that applies to all the slack-jaws out there blogging is soon to be determined.
Really, just fascinating stuff about punctuation and grammar and spelling. Things that I would like to say to the teachers at my school if it were not to be met with a very obviously feigned interest and some crap about how they don't really have a choice in what or how they teach. If we are all puppets and there is no puppet-master, we can just lie here until someone does something with us.