oral language tends to be flowery, expressive and spontaneous. We understand so thoughtless, it is not necessary to think to catch the meaning of what we are talking. This is true in our conversations with friends, family and colleagues. Often so when it comes to strangers we meet on the street, a store or restaurant. But nothing is more difficult to rate the oral language precisely because it follows the logic of language syntax as well written .
As example of this problem, I reproduce the newspaper box ( Reforma, October 14, 2010, "City", p. 1), which takes the words of Cristian Vargas, a political folk Institutional Revolutionary Party, who has repeatedly shown its aggressive side, violent. Retain the original quote (and all errors): "I do not lie to my mother in my district, people know who I am and supports me and let's see what happens in 2012, we will fight the internal candidate for Delegation and why not?, reach Gustavo A. Madero. "
'm sure that this statement, live full color, will have heard consistently, but writing is far from easily understood as transcribed in the newspaper Reforma , world famous for their lack of punctuation, spelling , syntax, grammar, etc.. And for better or worse that could fall over the deputy in question, Mr. Vargas, he was to blame for how his words appeared in the newspaper. In the case of speech, is within the parameters of the understandable, which makes it incomprehensible is the lack of expertise of the journalist who was in charge of drafting of the quotation.
First, the word my but not possessive pronoun. Should take i check in the : me. Let's spend the rudeness, "I do not lie to my mother," and see what happens after the word District [sic , because he had written in tiny d] no connection whatsoever between the grammatical sentence above and below. In other words, this is a enjambment . Point and should be followed [. ] before "people" and the letter l should be capitalized, of course. We have been three errors.
The word as in the next sentence is an indirect questioning should be written with accent on the first or : "People know how I [...]. " The following sentence is serialized to the previous and that's okay to use the and : "People know how I am and support me [...]." But the next sentence not come with the previous serial. Therefore, there should be a comma before "and we'll see what happens [...]" "[...] people know who I am and supports me and let's see what happens in the [sic ] 2012 [...]. " Discourages the use of the item before the year, just as superfluous. There are people who argue in favor of using it, but it is as necessary as a bucket of dirty water during a hurricane in Tabasco. When we use the same article before the millennium? Who ever wrote: "In the 1999 there were almost no blogs? But: if you think that readers will not understand "1999" as year, you can write "In the year 1999 there were almost no blogs." But it seems a bit excessive. So, he had written "[...] we will see what happens in 2012."
On the other hand, if the transcript is true, at least in terms of words Vargas said, was the deputy who used Article. No way! That could be, or the writer, we want to improve the reporting flat, may have added the article unnecessary. May never know. Do not count this as a bug, then. This leaves us, so far, two errors: five.
continues date with another sentence that has no grammatical relation to the above: a more enjambment. Had to write about and followed [. ] after 2012 and the word we must appear in capital letters. The phrase (or platitude ) Why not? is parenthetical, but only a comma after: missing comma before, after and : "[...] to the Delegation and why not?, reach Gustavo A. Madero. " Two mistakes. Thus, a total of seven errors in 35 words, two lines and a half in any word processor, like Word, an average of 2.8 errors per line in a newspaper that is read all over Mexico and even, thanks to the Internet, in many other countries.
Here is the same date, correctly written. As I believe that the Member concerned would not complain about the absence of 2012 article before , remove it to gain some clarity:
"I do not lied to my mother in my district. People know who I am and supports me, and let's see what happens in 2012. We will fight the internal candidate for the Delegation and why not?, Reach Gustavo A. Madero. "
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