TDQ: What sort of feedback do you normally get from your grammar rule videos?

Brewster: Mostly it’s about the glasses. Which are actually a disguise I’ve been developing since 4th grade.

TDQ: Who are your influences?

Brewster: Grammatically, my grandmother was my biggest influence. She taught me the difference between lay and lie and to only use than as a conjunction (smarter than I) rather than as a preposition (smarter than me). I don’t subscribe to all the rules she taught me anymore (sorry, Grandma), but she made me think about language critically. My father too was an influence. He’s constantly making up words. When I was a kid he would make up a word—for instance, swiffledode—and we’d ask him what the word meant and he’d say, “Well, it’s a little like pripapitous,” and that would just go on and on. Continue reading →