Grammar Check

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Posted by: pandabear0880 Original: 3/28/2008 4:11 PM Views: 74 Comments: 0 eProps: 0 Read Comments Post a Comment Back to Your Xanga Site

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Friday, March 28, 2008

So there you are, skimming through another school's paper, looking for something worth reading. Then something grabs your attention: a picture of a sweet-faced little girl. Hmmm... Intriguing.

So you start reading the article. It turns out to be a dedication. The story of a little girl who died of leukemia. Written by her sister.

It's all very touching... You want to feel sad. You want to feel grief. She deserves your tears.

But one thing hinders you, as it always does when you read articles like this. You can't help it. You curse your English teachers, each and everyone of them, for drilling this demon into your head. A demon by the name of Grammar.

Though you want to feel whatever the writer is feeling, you can't. Because all through the article you're reading, there's this voice at the back of your mind, screaming, "Wrong grammar! Wrong grammar!!!" But you try to fight the urge to grab a pen and scribble over the abusive word written and published in paper. What the hell is wrong with this paper's editor?? Doesn't he/she know the difference between 'is' and 'are'? Why the hell don't they use a word processor if they don't know how to spell?

All these thoughts are going through your head as you read the sufferings the writer is going through, only she wrote it as 'the suffering we went through'. Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!! People and their language skills....

Yet you fight on. Trying to unscramble the hidden messages behind the confusing grammatical errors. And you continually stay on alert, diverting your thoughts whenever they start to turn to, "This should be...."

And finally, you reach the end. You slump back, exhausted. But you didn't win the battle. Because deep down, you don't feel grieved by the little girl's death or how much her sister suffered. You only feel grieved with the way people continually ignore the beauty of word processors and correct grammar.

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