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Originally Posted by Echos Myron redux
Seems to me that what Trace62 is expressing here is not so much a sense of superiority but a kind of "my therapist isn't perfect" moment which are actually pretty important to acknowledge and even celebrate in therapy. Mine is that, when my T wrote me a letter it became apparent that he just sticks semi-colons where he pleases, not where they're appropriate. It's kind of funny because I see him as so worldly and wise. If anyone else did it wouldn't be funny and I probably wouldn't notice.
This thread is more about the nuances of the therapeutic relationship than it is about pronunciation I feel.
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I read my T's psychology today page once and cringed the entire way through and haven't reread it since. There was a misused semicolon (gasp!) and a lot of really awkward and cheesy wording. It wouldn't have really bothered me if it was someone else, but it bothered me that it was sloppy. He's much more eloquent when he speaks. It kind of felt like seeing him in public wearing cargo shorts and socks with sandals instead of his normal business causal attire, if that makes sense.
Semicolon abuse bothers me more than most grammatical mistakes because you don't really
need to use semicolons, so if you don't know how to use them properly just don't use them. Misuse of "whom" when it should be "who" also bothers me a lot more than "who" when it should be "whom" for similar reasons, because it feels like the person was being pretentious and failing at it. But that's just me being pretentious.