the human brain is still a mysterious organ despite the great advances in neurology. Although many compare it to a computer, is far from functioning as such. Brain logic is many things, but it is far from being ordered . On the contrary: although every human brain has certain operating paradigms, each plays a unique way because each person is who is educating their conditioning and mind, day after day, year after year. Learn how to link data with smells or tactile sensations, sounds and images with memories immediate. Tours of the electronic impulses of our brain are unfathomable, but now we can even see them graphically- and no two people who experience the same way. Many grammatical and syntactical errors we make in the time of writing have to do, I believe, with so sui generis in the brain works.
Consider the last line of caption that leads to this post ( Reform , "Justice", September 23, 2010, p. 9): According to some passengers, the driver of the minibus was speeding . " When I read this line, at first I welcomed the sentence "According with ." Many journalists have written "According to " decal English According To . But while I took a few seconds to identify the problem, I knew something was wrong with the last four words. And this was, probably because I suffered a process of cross-linking of ideas very similar to that suffered who drafted the foot.
speeding is a very common adverb. A patrol might say, for example: "I stopped you because I was speeding ." But there is also, and is equally prevalent, the adverb high speed . This, however, is not the same as before, because no involves the concept of excess but is merely descriptive: fast , very fast : "Although you would high speed , had not exceeded the limit. "
What happened, then, in the caption? My theory: the writer first thought "the driver bus was going very fast "but then realized that there would be enough to write large speed and changed the idea for the occurrence of the shock we see in the image, the driver should have been with excess speed , the adverb correct in this case. But when the time - time zero drafting - left the preposition to and completed the phrase with the phrase speeding , which was speeding . This was what grammarians call a anacoluthon (a word that seems stilted but that does not mean more than "i nconsecuencia in the construction of discourse"). In Castilian, we will not to excess of anything but with excess . Surely some readers will remember the ditty media against the habit of drinking alcohol before driving a car: "Nothing with excess . Everything in moderation. "
I imagine the pinball brain must have taken place in the brain of the writer because I felt it myself, the idea went back and forth, picking up concepts, images and words that could represent them. We started with pure speed, add the idea of \u200b\u200bexcess, imagine the impact the words end and dove into the page. Well, actually, I threw them but I just read a little dizzy, but I also-anyone-could have made that mistake. And while it's understandable, it should have a spell fish because, like I should have felt "something was wrong" since it is the same type under the influence of the potent brain hormones that start to walk during the creative writing, to read the final result. Nobody writes in perfect view, but always try, and so we must work, reread, corrected. (And you better not be the same day).
In a nutshell, that's fine, in theory, write a text high speed , but even if we could control the prose under the powerful influence pharmacological tide of our brain, it would be wrong to write this text speeding , what implying that we are not controlling anything. That's right: we would be enjoying the thrill of writing in all its glory. But then comes the classic and harsh reality: everything you read in Painless Writing, blog ...
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