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In Reply to: RE: Will high end audio survive Covid-19? posted by Bill the K on August 1, 2020 at 21:48:48:
I have never been particularly good with grammar and punctuation. I have to go back and proofread what I have written.
A neat trick for your daughter to teach her students who struggle is to have them read their essays backward. So start at the end of the paper and read each sentence by sentence from back to front. It helps get your head out of your ideas and read the essay without your head getting in the way.
Second language learners focus so much on the grammar and the punctuation they wind up worrying too much about these technical issues and not on their ideas. Plus, they wind up hating English.
I tell them my story from South Korea. I was teaching night school to business professionals.
A woman who worked in the office came up to me and said "Would you like a copy?"
A nice perfect sentence. I had no idea what she was talking about.
She then motioned "drinking." Ahh, COFFEE. South Koreans have trouble with F and P. So the perfect grammatical sentence is worthless without the key word being spoken correctly.
I tell this story to my Hong Kong Students and note that if this woman had said
"Like a Coffee you would?" I would perfectly understand what she was asking me even if the grammar is a train wreck.
Noam Chomsky has written at least one book on the most important aspects of language. He outlines something similar to my story.
This isn't to say grammar and punctuation isn't important but substance is vastly more important than form.
PS - you must be very proud of your daughter - that is a major accomplishment indeed. You will have to get her a good stereo for her birthday - or better yet when you want to upgrade you can pass yours on to her. Music is literature.
As an aside:
I was led a little astray back in my university days. I started out doing a business degree - Marketing/Accounting/Business Law that sort of thing.
But when I began taking Biology, Psychology, Criminology and Philosophy - I found that I much preferred these subjects - the high grades came much easier. Read the chapter once get 100% on the test. With Economics it was a slog - read it 4 times - fall asleep - wake up read it again - get a B. Meh - hated that crap.
The university told me that to be a teacher I should have a degree in a teachable subject - English, History or Math. So I switched from my passion and took Literature and History.
I wanted to do a masters and a Phd, but the problem was that I wanted to do those in Psychology or Philosophy. I was put off by the notion of going back, once again, to take the undergrad courses. I went to University for 13 years and needed a job to pay for all those loans.
Adding another 8 years to be a Psychologist was too daunting.
Cheers.
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