In a message dated 1/23/2003 1:40:22 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Well, anyway. There are always going to be people around who claim that > basic correctness in verbal expression is just an annoying distraction that > we would all gratefully dispense with if we could just let our hair down and > act naturally. They just don't know any better. We're probably all this way > with something or other--some people might be bad at math, some people bad > with social skills, some people see nothing but details and can't see the > big picture (or see only the big picture and pay no attention to > details)--whatever it is. But when we're bad at something we also can't see > that we are, because the very deficiencies that make us bad at it also make > us blind to realistic self-appraisal. (The corollary is that you're probably > best in those areas where to tend to be "your own worst critic.") I wish the > concept had a name, because I think it's important in trying to understand > how different people relate to a whole welter of the less tangible, less > concrete skills--such as written expression, or what makes a good picture, > or what have you. > > Sorry this got so long. (This post is what my father would > call "longer than > it is interesting" <g>). > > --Mike I, on the other hand, do not write well and know it. If I am going to "publish" something, then I have someone proof read it. If I make posts on the Internet I do it very quickly, and consider it a form of speech, not prose. If I had to consider each post a "published paper," then I would probably never speak at all. It would take me too long to compose a post. By the time it was done, the topic would have moved on. Besides I don't have the time in my busy life for that. I would prefer the Internet be speech-based for those who get annoyed by my grammatical, punctuation, and sentence structure errors. But in actually, *I* would not prefer it, because then we would interrupt and overtalk each other. At least with writing each has their own say in their own way (yes, I know the real exact would prefer his/her rather than their, but their is an evolving non-gender-specific single pronoun). Yes, we all have different skills and different skill levels in those things that we do and those things that we attempt. I don't think I am getting your point. At all. Doe aka Marnie
