Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00722)

<< Problem is when we read anything we immediately notice grammatical 
and spelling errors and that makes reading such message bad experience. >>

Instead of thinking of bad grammar as giving YOU a bad experience, why 
don't you think of it as a way of "nature" (or whomever) trying to 
emphasize something, to make it more noticeable.

You're never going to convince everyone in this group that they should 
do things your way (in other words, you're not going to get rid of the 
bad grammar), so instead, let those instances of bad grammar emphasize 
something to you.

Each time you see bad grammar, ask yourself what that bad grammar might 
mean to you, and look for a positive emphasis. I'm sure you can find a 
positive emphasis that involves the bad grammar, then you can get good 
from it.

The only other alternative is to block that sender with your filters, so 
you never see their messages at all, and if you do that, you might miss 
something that your infinite spirit would have wanted you to see.

I am reminded of street signs I've seen that have had bad grammar or 
deliberate misspellings. It bothered me at first, until someone pointed 
out to me that I actually remembered the information on the sign better 
because of the errors. (Speaking of errors, can you find the word in 
this paragraph that I deliberately mispelled?)

One such sign read simply "DRIVE CAREFUL" (in this case, I believe they 
left off the LY ending because more people would understand it with the 
shorter word). There was a very tall towering chimney in Chicago that 
was famous for a misspelled word on it, but for the life of me, I can no 
longer remember what that word was. I do remember that I noticed it 
every time I passed it on the freeway. If it had been spelled correctly, 
I'd have never noticed it.

So, when you see bad grammar or misspelled words, just look for the 
good, and ignore the bad. The good is there, if you look for it. But if 
instead, you always look for the bad, it's your loss. (My mother, when I 
was a kid, always told us about the bad she saw in our friends' 
families. Today, all she can remember of those families is those bad 
things she commented on. She doesn't remember the good that she also saw.)

John

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