It is designated by the term of comment to that writing that contains explanations or glosses of a text to facilitate the understanding of the same. Those complex and difficult to understand works require notes, observations or comments that facilitate their understanding. Generally, very, very old works require these writings. Likewise, a comment may refer to any briefly written story.
Uses of the word in ancient times
While, in ancient rome , the term enjoyed many other references such as: a book, the memoirs of a public personality, writings that deal with the life of a citizen x, a pontifical ritual, the collection of minutes in which the sessions held by the Senate, a judicial piece that is used in the process of a trial, a book that summarizes medical prescriptions, works on grammar and rhetoric.
Opinion article
Currently, the text comment is the work or study that is carried out on a text and that regularly takes the form of an opinion article.
Commonly, it is used to assess the reading competence presented by a student and also the knowledge presented on a given subject. The exercise consists of first reading the text in question and then proceeding to its assessment and synthesis, which will be carried out in several parts: a theme (the central idea of the text), an organizational scheme (division of the thematic sections of the text), a summary (what the text deals with), a linguistic characterization (sentence modality used) and a personal assessment (subjective opinion of the person making the comment).
On the other hand, the comment is an element of frequent and highly valued presence in the mass media, radio and television, and in the graphic press: in newspapers and magazines. It is framed within the genre of opinion because it precisely consists of issuing a judgment, an assessment, a criticism, among others, about a topic of interest.
In television and radio programs, of general interest, or of a purely political nature, the host or an editorial writer usually express comments, in which they give their opinion and establish their position on certain local issues or events, or failing that, international
Undoubtedly, comments of this type, also called editorial comments, enjoy great interest from readers, listeners or viewers, because they precisely interpret the facts and provide an opinion, usually in line with the editorial line of the medium. , and help the public to better understand some circumstances that occur and affect some areas of the country.
For example, in the Sunday editions of the most important newspapers in the world it is common to find several comments of this type, written by great pens of national and international journalism, which offer a personal look at political, social, economic, judicial and political events. sports, among others, that happen ... And it is not capricious that they gather on a Sunday but it has to do with the fact that it is the day that the public has more time to dedicate to reading as most of them do not have to go to work, or study, among other activities.
Types of comments
There are several types of comments: critical (notes about the text), historical (in the case of commenting on facts), philological (comments on the voice-overs), literary (when they refer to a better or worse use of language), biblical (explanations of the holy scriptures) and dissertations (interpretation of the different parts of a text).
Judgment or assessment on a subject or person
On the other hand, the word comment is also used to designate the judgment, assessment or criticism that is issued regarding a matter, either orally or in writing.
People constantly comment on countless issues that have to do with personal things or also that have to do with the lives and actions of other people, which we know and do not know.
In other words, the comment is a typically human act.
We must also highlight that the comments are made with an interlocutor who is listening to us, in writing, and for some years ago, with the fantastic dissemination of new technologies and social networks, comments abound on the internet, in the aforementioned networks such as Facebook and Twitter, where precisely they are given a privileged space, and also blogs and web pages of all kinds admit the comments of their visitors.
