Adding “magical grammar” into a fantasy story is a great idea! We should add another “𝞯∘⋇𝞿” to the incantation because it sounds better!
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Next step to the fantasy story: Every grammatical alteration to a spell increases its potency, decreases the necessary mana to cast it, adds some additional benefit that wasn’t there before, or all of the above. Backwater Folk-Magic Wizard becomes an OP anime protagonist, the explanation of whose powers eventually just becomes “it’s so-and-so. They do stuff like that.”
OP Folk-Magic Wizard also, through an interaction with their peers, accidentally becomes a founder of the discipline of Magical Performance Art, the goal of which is to not merely cast effective spells, but to do it in an aesthetically pleasing way — symmetrical spirals of fire and that kind of thing.
Unrelated to other comment: I studied enough grammar in school that I can edit with considerable skill. But it was French class that taught me that the FEEL of the words, how they flowed, also mattered. And the line “I just know that the way it is now ITCHES” makes me feel seen.
Real-time example of this: I saw a social media post today that used the possessive construction “my wife and I’s” and I felt like I had to wash my neurons. I acted a bit out of character and started an argument in the comments about it.