RE: Contest | 25-Word Comment - Monkey Business | We Write?
According to statistics, more than 700 people do NOT know how to read or write, which is quite sad nowadays with so much technology that helps people learn even from home.
We learn to write at school, then it becomes an everyday thing, although we write on our devices, we also use a pen and paper on some occasions.
Now, let's talk about writers, these people with their talent leave their essence in what they write, let me explain: You start to look through a book, somehow you realize that it corresponds to X or Y writer, why does this happen, because of the way they express themselves, when we write we let more of ourselves be seen and I would say that it is more authentic than talking to a person since we realize that they are lying.
What you write CANNOT be refuted, let me explain again: We write something, we send it to a person, time passes, this person tells you, YOU wrote this and now you say exactly the opposite, ¿ how do you refute this? The evidence is there, so writing is a way of expressing ourselves but we also have to take into account what we write since the evidence remains.
When we write part of our life is exposed, by our experiences expressed, by the way we write what happens to us, and how it happens and also by so many other things that we capture in lines.
I can tell you that I have said things that “a posteriori” I don't remember that I said them, I have also written things that I don't really remember when I imagined them to be written. I don't remember the moment, I don't remember the handwriting I used and I don't remember why I wrote it.
I can tell you that it happens to me often. What I can faithfully tell you is that I don't plagiarize writings, I just forget that they came from my mind.
illiteracy is also increasing in our country and the number is much higher than 700 (250,000 in the Netherlands! and 3,3 million of 16+ years can hardly read and write!).
The reason? Most illiterates are foreigners and although they go to the same school, get the same opportunities, no, even more opportunities and extra lessons, they simply do not want to learn. They prefer to skip school, are always late, make the streets unsafe and brag that they can do just fine without education. If in addition, girls and women are not allowed to go out on the street and are kept at home despite the compulsory education law or are forbidden to learn even if they are very intelligent, then it is not strange that illiteracy is increasing. In addition, working with a tablet and computer is also the cause. If children do not learn to write first with a pencil and then with a fountain pen, writing, just like handwriting, is never developed. Typing often means that words are automatically completed and in addition it is looking at pictures and tapping the correct answer. Even a job application letter is no longer written. Everything is online and only a few boxes have to be checked.