David Wynn Miller

During the 1980s, he went through a divorce proceeding and appeared pro se in numerous child custody hearings (67, according to his website) losing every time.

Having become convinced that the judiciary was rigged and governed by linguistic maneuvering and that the English language had been deliberately modified to enslave the people, he decided to override the system by developing his own theory of language to be used as a form of legalese.

Miller claimed to have created his language in 1988 by discovering "the mathematical interface in the truth that certifies all 5,000 languages, frontwards and backwards."

According to Miller, the use of his language guaranteed success in court cases and it could also be used to eliminate taxes and disbar judges.

In the following years, he promoted it through seminars, books and videos.

Miller's constructed language, known in full as "CORRECT-SENTENCE-STRUCTURE-COMMUNICATION-PARSE-SYNTAX-GRAMMAR" (shortened as "C.-S.-S.-C.-P.-S.-G."), is also variously called, with or without capital letters, "PARSE-SYNTAX-GRAMMAR", "CORRECT-LANGUAGE", "QUANTUM-LANGUAGE-PARSE-SYNTAX-GRAMMAR", "Quantum language", "Quantum Grammar", "Truth Language" "Syntax Language", "In the Truth", "Syntax sentencing" or "QUANTUM-MATH-COMMUNICATIONS".

The name "Quantum Grammar" eventually became commonly used in the sovereign citizen environment.

Miller's design involves sentences that begin with prepositional phrases, using the word For. It is easily recognizable, among other traits, by the constant and repetitive use of the phrases "for the" and "with the" and by the absence of action verbs, except in gerund form.

Users of the dialect reject the use of adjectives, adverbs and pronouns.

The language also has an abundance of punctuation.

For example:

"FOR THE FORMS OF OUR PUNCTUATIONS ARE WITH THE CLAIM OF THE USE: FULL-COLON=POSITION-LODIO-FACTS, HYPHEN=COMPOUND-FACTS =KNOWN, PERIOD=END-THOUGHT, COMMA-PAUSE, AND LOCATION-TILDES WITH THE MEANINGS AND USES OF THE COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE FULL-COLON OF THE POSITION-LODIAL-FACT-PHRASE WITH THE FACT/KNOWN-TERM OF THE POSITIONAL-LODIO-FACT-PHRASE AND WITH THE VOID OF THE NOM-DE-GUERRE = DEAD-PERSON."

Miller's ideas about language are notably rooted in the idea that only nouns have legal meaning and that their meanings are static and absolute.

This had led Miller to arbitrarily recast words' definitions and roles according to his own understanding and convenience.

Among the idiosyncratic rules of the language he created, sentences must contain at least 13 words and use more nouns than verbs, sentences used in court filings must start with prepositional phrases, a preposition is needed to certify a noun, and a word that starts with a vowel followed by two consonants means "no contract" and will therefore void any document.

Although the language he pioneered is incomprehensible to most people, Miller asserted that it can end all forms of misunderstanding and conflict and called mainstream English language a "fiction".

Miller has also been described as leading a "linguistic cult".

After creating his language, Miller began styling his name as "David-Wynn: Miller", claiming that the punctuation marks are hieroglyphics that make him "life" and that without them his name is two adjectives and a pronoun.

He verbally said his name "David hyphen Wynn full colon Miller".

In a variation of the strawman theory, Miller claimed that the addition of hyphens and colons to a person's name makes the person a "prepositional phrase".

The person is thus identified as a "fact" existing in the "now-time-dimension"; the names as written in this way are distinguished from the names listed at birth and in "all-caps" (as on a birth certificate), which identify the legal estate and not the living being in fact.

Signing up to get a "birth certificate" allegedly creates a taxable Person (Corporation) (e.g., David Wynn MILLER as opposed to :David-Wynn: Miller.).

Therefore, Miller asserted that, by adding punctuation to their names and by using his language in their tax return forms, people could avoid paying taxes.

No judge has ever accepted this argument, and in fact many individuals who have attempted to use it have ended up in jail.

Canadian judge John D. Rooke, who compiled various examples of pseudolaw in his 2012 Meads v. Meads decision, commented that Miller's "bizarre form of "legal grammar"" is "not merely incomprehensible in Canada, but equally so in any other jurisdiction" and that reading documents written in Miller's language may give the impression that their author is "suffering from mental or cognitive disturbance".

Donald J. Netolitzky, writing for the Alberta Law Review, commented that "Documents written in "Millerese" are a challenge to interpret" and that "video recordings of Miller's seminars defy both description and credulity".

David J. Peterson, a language creator, observed that Miller's ideas demonstrate "confusion about the nature of language in general... and of the English language specifically", notably because there is no such thing as "context-independent meaning — in life or in language".

Miller has used and may have originated a scheme found in Organised Pseudolegal Commercial Arguments that cites the Universal Postal Union as supranational authority.

David Wynn Miller (died 2018 ), also styled :David-Wynn: Miller or David-Wynn: Miller, was an American tool and die welder, pseudolegal theorist, and leader of a tax protester group within the sovereign citizen movement.

A self-proclaimed judge, Miller is best known for creating "quantum grammar", a version of the English language to be used by people involved in judicial proceedings.

He asserted that his constructed language, which is purportedly based on mathematics and includes unorthodox grammar, spelling, punctuation, and syntax, constitutes the only "correct" form of communication in legal processes.

His views also include a variation of the strawman theory.

People seeking remedy with Miller's syntax in court have not met with success.

His language is incomprehensible to most people and the pleadings that use it are routinely rejected by courts as gibberish.

Since Miller's death, his language has seen continued usage by other people within the sovereign citizen movement.

Miller lived in Ohio before moving to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

He claimed that at the age of 25, he died for half an hour when an inept surgeon removed both his kidneys and adrenal glands.

His heart restarted spontaneously while outside his body during autopsy.

Following this, he said his IQ became 200, his endorphin levels were six times normal, and he stopped aging.

Miller's activism stemmed from his own frustrating experience with the legal system.