Marc,
I'm trying to decide if I committed a grammatical error in my post to you. Should it be "our clinging to our ideas...is merely the action of..." or could the "our" make it a plural clinging??? THis thread makes me SO neurotic!
But when I focus on those things, I do it out of a fascination for structure, and for the power of words, not because I am critically looking for errors in others' writings. Words and language just make my heart beat faster. That we can transmit emotions, create images, communicate complex and abstract ideas, with these little marks and curlicues is amazing and awesome to me. Oral communication relies on expression, tone, timbre, caesurae and tempo, all sorts of other clues, where the written word has only the power of the author's ability with language. The sophistication of our language is also dependent on man's unique abilities to think abstractly. Puns, synonyms, homonyms, puzzles, anagrams, wordplay of all sorts- will all that be duplicable by a humorless computer? Surely we will still need linguists and wordmeisters!
The thought of reading and writing becoming lost arts saddens me terribly!!!
I'm just rambling...waiting for son's car to be ready and picked up.
Would I have to talk instead of write in your future? |
