I have come to realize that monolinguals and bilinguals aproach language in various manners.
Monolinguals just don’t feel the sting of language as much as we bilinguals do.
Language hurts. Bilinguals feel language and we are more sensitive to it. It is something that monolinguals fail to understand.
I suppose it has something to do with the constant correction we ourselves make to our speech, our writing.
It is called with a very fancy name: metalinguistics. It is a monster that it is constantly breathing down ones neck. Shaping it, correcting it and scolding us.
It is, however, one thing that one gets criticized in the privacy of ones own mind and another having it heard from the lips of another person.
That is why it stings.
I suppose that to monolinguals a criticism about language is no more than an objective observation.
To us is an infringement on a privatre conversation.
Though what hursts the most is when we are told that we don’t speak any language right.
People really need to stop saying that. It stunts growth.