Originally, I meant to title this post as, “For Mary, mistakes you made!” But
I think I would make a bigger mistake if I did so. In our life, nothing is completely right or absolutely wrong.
To tell you the truth, I was rather surprised when reading your post. I couldn’
t believe such a small affair; just a misunderstanding could make you discouraged. I wonder if you still remember the lady I mentioned in one of my former post,
which is titled “Enjoy, a kind of life attitude.” You are exactly that kind of a lady in my mind, mature, thoughtful, kind, helpful strong-minded and generous. How can you be defeated by such a small misunderstanding? It was just a misunderstanding. Even if it was not a misunderstanding, I don’t think you should doubt about whether it was worth for you to write on the forum. Is it really so serious even if one or two or even more people sharp with you. Are those few people even more important than thousands of fans here who always enjoy your writings
and love you so deeply in their heart and respect you sincerely? How can you throw a large piece of white paper away only because there’s a bit of dirt on it?
Hehe, no matter how strong-minded a person is, he/she can’t be strong all his/
her life. You would never really do that, right? You just feel tired a bit, and
need a short rest.
Now, I’d like to talk about your work here. How to learn English well. Most people would say, “Practice makes the perfect.” So many people practiced their English here. And you have tried your best to help them with their practicing. You
correct their writing with such great patience, some are quite long. In my mind
, the longest is about 5k. My god. Once a teacher has corrected one of my thesis
which is about 13k, but he was paid to do so, 200 RMB yuan. Hehe, I am just kidding by mentioning this. I mean if you are really helping them, or in another word, is it really worth for you to do so? In my opinion, you are spoiling them. Yeah, I agree that we can learn a lot by comparing an article to a corrected one.
I will be very grateful if someone could correct my mistakes, and I will try to
write another passage to make sure that I have know the mistakes I made. But someone write something here and ask you or others to correct it for him, you did
it carefully, but would they read the corrected one carefully ant think it over?
Secondary school students are required to write short composition too. Junior middle school students are asked to write a composition of about 60-80 words in the high school entrance examinations. At first, for practice, I encouraged the students to write the composition as long as they could, so that they could enlarge their vocabulary and improve their English as much as possible. But by and by
, I found I was wrong. I found some students just used a Chinese-English dictionary, and then piled the news words they got from the dictionary together, and never thought of the usages of words, or grammars. Some even use an E-dictionary and input the whole sentences into it and let the E-dictionary translate them. So
what’s the use of this kind of practice. So I think long passage shouldn’t be
encouraged if someone’s English level isn’t good enough to do so, unless it is necessary. (I am writing a somewhat long passage, though my English isn’t good enough. Just because I want to express myself. And when writing ,I will try my
best to avoid any grammar, or spelling mistakes. And I will try my best to use
the drills I am familiar with to avoid Chinglish.) So I think you shouldn’t waste time on those kind of post.
And the last thing I want to say is that sometimes you write too much on the forum. For several times when I entered the Canuck’s Comment, I found one third, even half of the posts on the homepage of it was written by you. I don’t mean that you really write too much, or that the friends here may be fed up with your writings. To keep healthy, I don’t think it is a good thing for you to sit in front of a computer too long every day. And one the other hand, a forum is different from a webpage. A webpage is just for reading, while a forum is more for participating. All the old friends will be glad to enjoy your wonderful writings. But some new comers may be shy to put their post together with so many excellent ones written by you. Hehe, even when I myself think it is unreasonable by saying
so. But since I have written it down, I don’t want to delete it. Anyhow, I think you should take your health into consideration.
HEhe, Auntie Mary, maybe I was just fiddle-faddling, it’s just for discussing.
