Comments on: You are what you write

By: Hal Brown

Hal Brown — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:00:48 +0000

Hey Karen,
You write good articles period. Rant all you like.
I am with you about “glaring typos or grammar mistakes.” We are not looking for absolute perfect English, just readable, with as few typos as possible.
Thanks for stopping by.

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:32:12 +0000

Hear, hear! It's so refreshing to read an article that shouts that we should absolutely care about our English writing, grammar and typos. When I'm reading an article and come across such glaring typos or grammar mistakes, it takes me out of the experience I was in reading the article.

I can appreciate how difficult non-English speakers have it, but there is no excuse for natural-born English speakers and writers. Are they just too lazy to turn on spellcheck or to read out loud their articles before they hit the publish key? If you know that your grammar needs work, then work on it! Learn the difference between your, you're,your's, yours, there, their, they're. It's not that difficult. I'm not perfect, but I do try to write articles that have good grammar, minimal typos and good sentence structure at least. /rant

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By: missy

missy — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:54:07 +0000

I left you an award today on the blog. Not because I want you to participate (I don't think it's your thing), but because I'm hoping to drive traffic to your site for when you do your tutorials!

By: Randy Murray

Randy Murray — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:39:25 +0000

Hi,

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By: Hal Brown

Hal Brown — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:25:18 +0000

And yet another good way to look at this. I have come to believe that we might all be better off if everyone learned to write. Writing forces organization of thought, in other words what you said, clarity.
Thanks Randy.

By: Randy Murray

Randy Murray — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:42:26 +0000

I am with you on this, brother!

Clarity is the key. Clarity of thought and expression. Poor writing, including grammar and punctuation, slows and confuses a reader. The excuse, "they'll know what I meant" is used too often.

Great post!

By: Hal Brown

Hal Brown — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:56:12 +0000

I've posted this before, but your comment reminded me of it. This is one of my favorite poems.

Useless Words

So long as we speak the same language and never understand each other,
So long as the spirals of our words snarl and interlock
And clutch each other with irreckonable gutturals
Well...
Carl Sandburg

By: philipbrunner

philipbrunner — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:24:24 +0000

A much needed post. I believe improper grammar is one of the fundamental flaws in communication. Simply put, if you can't use grammar correctly you can't communicate as effectively.

By: Hal Brown

Hal Brown — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:40:00 +0000

U rite LOL!
I too have thought about that and texting, anywhere words are shortened. Time will tell. Things seem to come together to conspire against writing and making communication a little harder.