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Grammar: The difference between
knowing your shit and knowing you're shit. ~ Author Unknown (sent to me via YourCards.com)
How many times have I spelled
grammar as grammer, or misspelled misspell as mispell? (I had to override my spell check
feature to misspell mispell. And horrors of all horrors, sometimes my mistakes
end up in print.
There is something visceral
about my reaction when I make a grammar mistake—perhaps forged by years of
corrections by parents and teachers. Me: “I am going to bring this book to
Linda.” My mother:“No, you are going to take this book to Linda.” We didn’t
have the “whatever” response yet—the only option was to learn proper English,
which I did willingly.
Now, I see how people chastise
themselves when they make a mistake. Some might be more prone to apologize
around me, assuming that since I am a writer, I must know how to spell and
construct a sentence. Little do they know…
Boy can I relate to this! I screw up all the time in my pursuit of perfection. My Aunt, who is a retired school teacher, chastises herself for mistakes in her hand written letters to me. She doesn't own a computer. It makes her hesitant to write me - for she's a perfectionist too. :-( Maybe I'll turn off my spell check next time I write her so she can see just how imperfect my writing is.
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