My mom was a high school English teacher. She used to have a book in the house entitled, "Writing With a Purpose" and for some reason I thought it read, "Writing with a Porpoise". I couldn't understand why she was having her students study about Porpoises in English class.
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that cursive writing was a secret language that only grown-ups could understand.— nicole
- I used to think that even people who spoke something other than English, thought in English— Peaches
- I used to believe that people who don’t understand English can’t talk.— American
- I used to think making straight A's in school was literally writing A's straight. Anon
- I used to believe that when people wrote in cursive, they were writing in Spanish.— Ellen
- When I was little - before we learned cursive - my sister and I called it 'real writing'. — Monty