RIDING AND WREATING

My students make a lot of mistakes most of which come out unaffected due to the multifarious clumsiness of their authors and go unpunished because of my clemency and aversion to acting as a human computer (both congenital). However, certain errors are worth dwelling upon. By way of illustration, spotting and emphasizing the difference in pronunciation between the words reading and writing seems to be so unwinable a game that some make the only winning move and refuse to play. Naturally, casual though such a handicap may appear during the lesson; on reflection, I can't bring myself to call it a confluence and abandon the idea of picking holes. Illiterate people not being able to tell reading from writing, let alone reading reading from writing and writing reading from writing.. That's more of a philosophy than I could ever ask for. The thrills and spills of jumping to conclusions I leave to you, dear readers.

On the other hand, they who never get it right may be contributing much of value to this philosophical approach of mine. If, although purely by chance, reading and writing seem indistinguishable for some, the two may be intertwined, mutually dependable and symbiotic, in a sense. There's no reading without writing; without saying it goes. But there's no writing without reading either. Accordingly, what I should do now is grab a book and nose-dive.