Yeah I said it

2:32 PM - 8/12/2008 - post comment

Whew!

Wow, when I read that you were angry at a post, I was afraid it was one of mine. Paranoid? Well yes. I value spelling and grammar, but I think that most blogs are diaries. I think they should flow, get the feelings out. If the people who didn't have the time to go back and edit/perfect a post just decided to skip blogging, I would lose a great deal of entertainment. Be yourself. I always say that the lives of real people are much more interesting than those of "celebrities". Maybe I can relate to them more.

Fightingfemale - 6:47 PM - 8/13/2008

No Worries

If she wants to make her own blog all prim and proper than that is her bussiness. But seriously to throw a hissy fit becasue other people don't always perfect thier blog posts and leave casue of what something else does with thier blog is just annoying. I say good riddance let someone else have to put up with her

SilverWind - 6:56 PM - 8/13/2008

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Even though I generally correct any misspellings of my own as soon as I discover them, people who make such a fuss about it are sooo annoying.

A certain level of spelling is desirable, agreed, but as long as we all understand one another, why make it extra hard on people who aren't really good at it, OR who simply wish to preserve a certain authenticity by leaving everything exactly as they wrote it the first time around?

Or as one of my favorite German singer-songwriters, who was a complete failure in school put it: I'm interested in life, not in how you spell it.

I welcome a remark by a well-respected British professor of the English language (whose name I forgot), who said that instead of endlessly confronting students with their mistakes, common misspellings should simply be accepted as alternative ways of spelling.

In my own language, a lot of words used to have two ways of spelling them, but the government came up with the brilliant idea of getting rid of alternative spellings altogether.

I don't understand why the government had to get involved anyway. Languages should be owned by the people who speak them, not by governments who look for ways to make life more difficult for people with IQs below 180.
Anyway, that's my humble opinion.

Edited by dutchboy on 8/15/2008 at 1:47 PM

dutchboy - 4:46 AM - 8/15/2008

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