This story was very difficult to understand for most likely because my reading skills are not that great. He used very large words in which I did not understand. One part that I did understand was where he quotes on page 153 "Moreover, unlike social errors, linguistic errors do not ordinarily require that we apologize for them." I believe when you make a grammatical error or a linguistic error you should almost apologize to yourself because you are the one making the mistake and that mistake might portray you differently to certain people because of the fact that people judge you. One point that really confused me was when he was explaining where an error originates from and where the error is always located, the student's paper and the grammarian's handbook. At least I think that was what he was trying to say. I did not understand that point at what so ever. One thing that I did understand and agree with also is when he was talking about the fact that many people do not know the difference between certain uses of words such as" me and Kelsey and Kelsey and I" or the difference between "to" and "too". This drives me absolutely insane sometimes because I believe that everyone should know how to use these correctly and in correct context. Sometimes you even have no idea of what the person is saying because of the fact that they are using their words in the wrong context. Other then that, it was very difficult to understand everything else he had to say. I really hope that our other readings are not as hard as this one.
I totally agree with the to and too comment.
ReplyDeleteYour and You're is also a very typical mistake, so annoying.
i agree on the big word part. It was extremely hard to follow at times. It annoys me when people don't know how to use "to" and "too" because those are things that you're supposed to know from a pretty young age. And I also agree on errors and how people portray you.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read the assignment yet but I'm not looking forward to it after reading what everyone else had to say. I hope it's not too difficult or boring. My grammar pet peeve is when my friends end their sentences with a preposition. For example they will say "Where did I put my keys at?" instead of just "Where did I put my keys?"
ReplyDeleteWiliams is saying something about the nature of error itself, where it comes from, and how we should approach it. Not easy to digest, I grant you - we'll talk about it further in class.
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