Grammar is often considered a boring and rigid subject. However, questions like whether to say "downgeloaded" or "gedownloaded" are passionately debated not only by professional linguists. Robert Stockhammer's book emphasizes the history of the knowledge of grammar, which claims to make such decisions. This knowledge has also been power since antiquity, primarily exercised in the regulation of the foreign through the means of writing. Stockhammer's fascinating study offers intriguing insights not only for literature and cultural studies scholars.