Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Images and Errors

Personally, I was very lost on both of these readings. From my understanding, or lack of, the "Where are images found?" article was saying that images came from our imaginations. I believe this is very true. I do not know here images would come from but our imagination? I feel like everyones images of the same item would be different. Take for instance if everyone had to draw a picture of what they thought a desert looked like. Everyone would draw a desert, but they would all be different because our imaginations are completely different from one another. Other than that I found that article to be a bit strange and hard to understand. Maybe that is just me.

The "Errors" article was basically a roller coaster ride for me. I was lost on about 90% of it. His rambling on and on was just way too much for me to comprehend. I thought the examples he had of writers contradicting their errors was kind of interesting, but really did not appeal to me. I do not know why it was so hard for me to follow? maybe its his style of writing? maybe its his words? I don't know. As far as the "game" goes. I think it was him using a bunch of errors during that whole writing on purpose, to see if anyone had noticed. I think he came out straightforward and said that though. I think his point on errors is that everyone makes them? or maybe that errors are seen differently by different readers because everyone has a certain belief on what certain errors are? Like I said both of these readings were extremely hard for me to follow. I think he locates errors in the writer. Especially when he showed the examples of grammarians violating their own rules. I think he showed these examples to show that everyone makes errors, even grammarians.

1 comment:

  1. You're right about why he shows grammarians violating their own self-imposed rules, but he doesn't locate error exclusively in the writer - there's more to it than that.

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