by saberard » Tue Mar 31, 2009 6:26 pm
You are of course right , Chris, that grammatical lapses cannot tell all; and perhaps in this one instance it seems that I am making a mountain out of a molehill. However, whenever I read these interesting little blurbs and find a jarring inattentiveness to very basic grammar -- such as, here, lack of agreement of subject and verb -- I wonder what the mindset can be that implies that scientific facts are important but that language does not to seem to really matter at all. It may be a left-right brain issue or something else; but I still believe that language is as worth attention as anything else, especially the attention of someone who is writing copy for something to be read by thousands of people. In many other societies language is still important, but in ours an attitude has set in that language is, at best, inconsequential and, at worst, beneath contempt. I hope my remarks can do some good.
You are of course right , Chris, that grammatical lapses cannot tell all; and perhaps in this one instance it seems that I am making a mountain out of a molehill. However, whenever I read these interesting little blurbs and find a jarring inattentiveness to very basic grammar -- such as, here, lack of agreement of subject and verb -- I wonder what the mindset can be that implies that scientific facts are important but that language does not to seem to really matter at all. It may be a left-right brain issue or something else; but I still believe that language is as worth attention as anything else, especially the attention of someone who is writing copy for something to be read by thousands of people. In many other societies language is still important, but in ours an attitude has set in that language is, at best, inconsequential and, at worst, beneath contempt. I hope my remarks can do some good.