Blog Explosion
While I’ve mentioned my use of Blog Explosion to surf some more interesting sites, there is the downside to it… that being some pretty useless and stupid fucking blogs out there.
Tonight I happened on one that put some descriptor about “issuational occurances” on the sidebar. Being an English major, that bugged me to no end. Firstly because there’s no such word as ‘issuational’, and, secondly, because occurrences was spelled wrong.
But that’s not all. I’ve visited many sites that not only have typos everywhere included with their misspellings, but also sites that say things like, “I’ve never been good with punctuation”, “I’m a writer” (and yet they can’t write anything legible because they don’t even know how to spell).
I can understand the occasional typo. It’s not like I’m 100% typo free. Well, yes I am. I’m typo free. It’s something I’m proud of, and my “theirs” are spelled liked that and not “theres” or “they’res” because I’m not a freaking idiot.
I speak English and type English and I’m damned proud of it. And I don’t make excuses for not having a “head for punctuation” or any other lame excuses because I’m too lazy to check what I’ve written. Get yourselves a fucking dictionary, or better yet, since you’re already on the net, in your Google bar, type in “define: whatever the word is” and when you misspell it, Google will ask you, “did you mean….”.
I also hate the people who add an apostrophe to everything, so they can’t write “typos”, instead they’d write “typo’s”.
Drooling imbeciles.
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Of course this asshole “Sue” was too big a weeny man to put up any link to her own website. All I know is that 211.26.178.80 is her IP.
Oh, Sue, Sue, Sue: it’s my blog. I think I can write about what I feel like writing about. I’m allowed to express my own opinions, that’s what blogs are all about. Get it? *duh* And expecting to read at least a grade 3 level of English does not make me a nazi, it makes me someone amazed at the illiterates who can somehow manage to get some semblance of a website up, but can’t manage to spell anything but their own names.
I guess we won’t get the chance to compare my ‘not great’, paid for blog with your originally designed, grammatically challenged blogspot, will we?
I don’t understand people who comment and don’t leave a website or email address. It renders the comment void unless, of course, it’s about how great and fabulous one is.
I agree with you 100%.
I’ve thought many times about blogging this exact idea. Spelling is a huge problem on the net (or is it lack of sufficient education?)
One little thingy that bugs the bejeezus out of me is the hyphenation of the word “probably”. I’m sure you’ve seen it: “prolly”. I don’t understand why people (kids) do this. It ony (only) serves to illustrate an absurd level of stupidity.
My opinion though…
Grate (Great) thought!
~michaelm (not an English teacher but a damn good speller)
Go, Jafer!
English is not my mother tongue, but I was very honoured when one of our English translators asked me to proof-read her text. Of course, it was late and the full-time proof-readers had gone home already, but I think I can spot a typo when I see one. (And boy, did I learn new words!)
I should get an English grammar book because I haven’t got my head around English punctuation yet. I may sometimes put commas according to Finnish rules or – most likely – not often enough, even though in Finnish there are commas all over the place (and I love it!!)!
Typos are a pet peeve of mine, too, I’m sure you know that. 
And so are grammatical errors, which in Finnish are polluting written language through speech (using a singular or passive verb with a plural subject – aaaagh).
Was this a blahblah comment, or what? Well, at least I’m leaving my URL 
As I am the author of the blog mentioned here I would like to thank you for pointing out my spelling mistake. But I would like to mention that issuational is a word I made up which I do mention on my blog. You are entitled to your own opinion, as to what constitutes a good or bad blog…My blog is my personal opinion just as you feel free to express yours on your blog…I apologise in advance for any spelling or grammatical errors in this comment.
Obviously I missed the reference to the fact that you made up the word ‘issuational’. I don’t mind people making up words, I do it myself and I think it’s fun.
I do have a problem with people using words that they think are actual words, (e.g., I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen the word, “conversate” or “irregardless”).
Unfortunately, my entire post wasn’t about your site alone, your site was probably the most prominent in my mind after a night of surfing. My point was more about the proliferation of bad sites out there, poor readability, poor spelling, grammar and typos amongst the top offences to me, rather than content.
As far as content goes, I agree with you and stick by my earlier comment that “it’s my blog and I’ll write whatever the fuck I want to write”. However, now that people can get some site for free, and everybody has jumped on the bandwagon to blog, it doesn’t mean that everybody should. And least of all are those who are too damned lazy or uneducated to know that their sites are full of errors, and, frankly, I can’t take them seriously if they’re too dumb to know the difference.
My typos are because I can’t type, not because I can’t spell 
That said, I agree wholeheartedly with you – there are some completely crap blogs out there. Especailly those ones by young people who seem to have made up their own language.
Spend some time on websites devoted to amateur art and you realize that spelling problems in the blogosphere are the least worst.
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That’s pretty harsh don’t you think? Who died and made you spelling/grammar nazi? You say there are some shit blogs out there? Who are you to judge when your own blog isn’t that great.