I am the world’s worst grammar and spelling Nazi. I
often post blogs with spelling and grammatical errors and then never go back
and fix them. I hunt down errors in other’s work and point them out for
correction but rarely ever do this for myself. I am not sure if it is because I
am finding it in the work of other and I do not find the time for my own work
or that I just do not care that much. I think I care far too much and for that
I pay a price.
I know that when you correct someone on the internet
it is not always well received. It is hard to infer inflections in voice tone
through a comment on a post so sometimes I am miss understood and feel that I
have upset someone. This is not the best method of communication for this
purpose sometimes. I have been ignored and shouted at via comment on several occasions
over a simple correction. I have been abused through words from other and as
never my intention to insult has apparently been miss read. I only ever meant
to help. I often wish someone would kindly help me if I make a mistake and did
not notice.
So what is this focus on perfection? I mean there is
good and there is awful and there is downright wrong but what is the focus on
perfection. And what is perfection? I wrote an article a while ago about the
over use of the word perfect and spoke of how people were saying it in context
to something that cannot ever be perfect, specifically people or and action. So
I get it when we want spelling and grammar to be perfect and I try to attain
that but I often see in my life and in daily interactions with other that there
is no such thing and perfect and that this idealization of the perfection in
magazines and other forms of media is unattainable and absolutely viscous. I
certainly could never cook that meal the way it looks on the cover of Chatalene
as it has been done by a food dresser, yes a food dresser, so it looks perfect
in fact often the food is raw when photographed and just made to look great to
sell. Oh there I said it to sell. Yes, that is right sex sell. So I guess even
food can be sexy…..what about spelling and grammar? Can that be sexy too? I
want to sell good grammar and spelling to the world so that I can communicate
better and understand more. I do not think I need it to be sexy to sell to me
but maybe the world needs it that way?
So why is it that we do not care if we make mistake? I
get the feeling that some of us out there are in the “That is good enough” category
and just give up on trying and amassing that go nowhere attitude of “who cares”.
Well I am here to tell you I care. I care about this world and what we leave
behind as our legacy. I am appalled at many, many, many things that go on in
the world but for some small reason I care. It makes me feel good to care
although frustration is involved sometimes I still care. I just wish more
people would care. It is such a crying shame that this has become a world of self-righteous
individuals who believe they are entitled and that what they do to another
person means nothing. It is no wonder our jails are over flowing (oh I better
not go there, that is another subject all together). I mean there are people
out there that think their actions have absolutely no repercussions on the rest
of the world or ever the small corner they stand in.
So how do we stand to use a statement of “perfect”
when we cannot even pick up our own trash? We are flawed in almost every way
possible we make mistakes and we are able to learn from most of them on an
individual basis but why not on a human basis? I find it sad that we cannot be
less industrious and just a little kinder to our planet that supports us. I see
we treat our most precious resource, the earth, with as little respect as we
have for our own spelling and grammar.
I hope there were not too many mistakes in this piece as I feel I might just ignore them...
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