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Yeah I said it

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Every now and than I will read a blog and feel the strongest desire to leave some sarcastic comment to their post, but I usually end up deciding against it, because well in the end, it would not really accomplish anything. Though it may give me a momentary satisfaction, it is not going to actually change anyone's mind so I figure why bother, it is not really worth it.

But I was reading a blog today, and well sense their whole post annoyed me, I said what the hell I am going to go for it. And if they read this and know I am talking about them, well I do not really care.

But anyway, she was talking about how she just started blogging, because she lost the journal she used to write in but she was undecided if she was going to keep her blog here on this site. But than she was going on this snooty little rant, about how like the fact she already caught some misspellings and run on sentences in some of the blogs here, and how she is thinking moving her blog elsewhere simply because not everyone here writes first draft perfected blog posts.

I know, misspelling, or bad grammar in a blog? The horror. So if she wants to dis JH and its members because we do not write blog posts as if we were all College Professors preparing to turn in an important dissertation, I say screw that.

So I said You know you could always just buy another journal, come to think of it is, I should have intentionally spelled journal wrong. And I should have used "U" instead of You.....ahh I could have done so much more damage, oh well.

3:32 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 - 7:47 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 - 7:56 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 - 5:46 AM - 8/15/2008

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