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Error acceptance
Life isn’t a language test. Communicating means relating to people – even when we read a textbook or use AI tools. Getting our message across doesn’t depend on our knowledge of grammar or how many words we know. .
While the idea of error acceptance has been around in academic discussion for a number of years, many of us still worry about making mistakes or using the wrong word when we’re talking or writing. We tend to get even more anxious if the language we’re using isn’t one we grew up with but one we’ve acquired along the way. At Go like Silk , the concept of error acceptance is an essential dimension of our communication policy and practice.
Communication always has its ups and downs. We don’t always say what we mean or always find the ‘right’ word. We might start a sentence going in one direction and end up somewhere quite different. We might misunderstand what someone has said – or they might misunderstand us. Our grammar might get mixed up or we might stumble over pronunciation – whether in our mother tongue or another language we’ve learnt along the way. This has very little to do with how well we know the language but everything to do with the fact that we’re human. Even if we wanted to accept the idea of perfection – no living, talking, writing human being is perfect.
Who’s to say when we’ve made a mistake? The grammar books? Our teachers? What if we left the notions of error and perfection out of the picture? We’d free ourselves from worrying about getting it right. We’d stop judging and comparing ourselves to others. And we’d have the space to concentrate on what’s most important: relating to other people and letting them relate to us.
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