What is "speak well"? What is good writing? The anecdote about García Márquez featuring Arsenio Escolar clears I think a lot of doubts about the tyranny of grammar and spelling, which can be (and are) necessary, but not permanent. For the teachers of language is much easier to address this in the grammar and spelling because they are easily measurable. Accounts faults and accents, and the rest of the note. So easy. But that's not good writing. That is only one part, and smaller than many believe, or want us to believe. Write well, speak well, you know how to play with words in order to reliably transmit all that we have in mind. Is first, of course, have something interesting in the head. And, of course, know verbalize. What is commonly called writing, or what in English for foreigners are the four skills is something that the teachers of language usually aside, as we are overwhelmed with the bes and vee, axes, verb conjugations and syntactical analysis. And no, it's not denigrate traditional education. For traditional rhetoric and dialectic, forgotten today. Or Latin, which would be a puzzle, but to teach how to think and to choose the right word, was the ideal subject.
Arsenio Escolar, in his article, brings up the story of Gabo to demonstrate the limited capacity of the writer to fit the criticism. Apart from the real political background of the paper, I am going to focus here on purely linguistic: my reading is another. Yes, grammar said that "duty" is possible, and that "duty" is required. (Say, of course, also of García Márquez, his manuscripts are full of misspellings.) And School concluded that García Márquez is a master "of the novel and journalism," but "perhaps a little less of language and knowledge fit a criticism or correction. " Let me explain to me how on earth is that of being a teacher "of the novel, and yet be less" language. " The narrow-minded, as school, grammar make its flag, it will be very clear. I'm sorry, but I see dark, and even tyrannical.
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