Very often we do not understand, and often condemn people who think differently than us and do not fit into generally accepted frameworks, and we forget that the world is interesting for its diversity, including the different understanding of it by those who live in it. And who can answer whether there are any criteria for correctness at all?
The tutor taught English to a boy of about eleven, who found this subject difficult. His thinking was either slow or non-standard. Times, parts of speech and words were inconceivably confused in this head. But often, not understanding the elementary and well-known, he made his own original judgments: paradoxical, but not devoid of logic. For example, having repeated the English verb “to have,” which is known to be translated “to have,” and having read an infinite number of sentences with it, to the final question of the teacher, who wanted to finally make sure that this time his work was not in vain, how would “have” be in English, the boy smartly answered: “my.”
“But the word “my” means “mine, mine, mine,” the teacher was dumbfounded.
“That’s right,” the boy agreed, “since “mine, mine, mine,” that means I have it.”
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru