Have you ever
stopped to think about how the so-called globalization affects you?
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I have. Proof
of it is what I have tried to synthesize in my profile (see right on this
page).
1. “We live in a bewilderingly complex world based on information.”
In the first place, globalization does affect us
deeply through the enticing attempts at sharing information. Every 24 hours,
amounts of data – which are far from being accessible to one individual as such
– are poured onto the World Wide Web. From a collective standpoint, this should
be intrinsically fruitful – provided that you get to know precisely the item of
information you are looking for. What is left for every one of us to hope is
that, in due time, a super-item of information will emerge which might help
humankind take a leap towards progress. It will surely be a leap of faith.
2.“There is so much of it that we’ve somehow come to think we know more because it – the information – is out there.”Google images
More often
than not, it is exactly the huge amount of data which misleads us into thinking
that we are by far more knowledgeable than, say, a person who lived in the 6th century
BC. Or 5,000 years ago, for that matter! It is not the quantity which enables
the leap, it’s its quality: its quality of attaining the quintessence of
universality by tackling The Core of Things. In so doing, we are more likely to
catch a glimpse of the Simple Truths; but wait: can anyone strive
to do that? Is this always an individual endeavour, or does it take a “mentor”
to lay out simple truths for you?
3. “But everybody has a right to be wrong! Give yourself the benefit of the doubt. Question your answers.”Google images
I am no
exception: I, too – so to speak – have a right to be wrong! I was, and I admit
it. While giving myself the benefit of the doubt, I am questioning my answers –
in this case, the maintenance of a blog which started as a place for Community
Language Learning; it was the perfect opportunity for me to see in what way
additional work at this conflicting /Advanced level as an extension of the
English class enables progress, at the same time granting a universal
dimension to the teaching/learning process which I, as (I believe) hundreds of
thousands of teachers of English worldwide, experience. But there are hundreds
of thousands of such blogs, so Dare
to know!
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Virtual conversations stayed scarce, and this can hardly motivate
a Blogger (in this case myself) to keep posting – unless the Blogger still
believes it doesn't matter whether his or her visitors have a say.
After switching to The Bare Necessities of the English Grammar there was even
less feedback, which turns a blog like this into nothing else but the adventure
of surfing solo across the World Wide Web (and finding fantastic images,
like the one on the right).
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As far as the
possibilities of the English language per se, a time will come when
nothing will have been left for the global community to say without stepping
into plagiarism. Perhaps it will coincide with the moment in which the Myths
about English will have been challenged one by one.
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I still believe that
there were intentions of feedback, which make me refrain from signing out
altogether; but the blog will virtually remain exactly what the header says:
Everything you always wanted to know about the English
grammar* (* but were afraid to ask). Ask a question – any question.
It will not take long until you receive an answer.
Sincerely yours,
Give me a word – just one word – and I’ll tell
you why you’re here
