Airing a beef
Just voicing an opinion of mine, one that irks me and gets ran across more than I’d like.
Illiterate commentors.
Poor (as in piss poor) punctuation, fouled spelling errors which are obviously NOT typos, weak to nonexistent foundational logic, and atypical memes bordering on cliche.
A friend says he hates having a battle of wits with an unarmed person, yet, if comments are any indication, our society is rapidly becoming disarmed in this area. And don’t say “I was using my phone for that,,,” as that excuse holds no water for me. I use my phone to write every post on this blog and do pretty danged good. Not perfect mind you, but that is on me as editor, not the phone.
It’s all just a sign of laziness in my opinion. Too lazy to read, too lazy to learn, likely too lazy to live.
Ok, off the soapbox and back to work. Y’all take care.
Dio's Workshop 
Amen brother! One could add to that the large numbers of errors in any newspaper. (Do they even have editor/proofreaders) Botched type set, spelling, absolutely inaccurate statements, and unrelated opinion jammed in with the obvious intent to persuade the simple to reach a certain conclusion. And it isn’t confined to print. Newscasters seem unable to form anything that could be considered a complete sentence. Mistakes aren’t the part that bothers me (make lots of them myself). The most annoying part is the shoulder shrug attitude instead of any desire to improve.
Admittedly I often spell, and write to reflect the everyday pronunciation and structure in which I typically speak for blog comments, letters and texts to friends, and other such written communication. In anything formal though it is still a necessary part of making the whole of the written words worthy.
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December 12, 2018 at 11:24 am
Euphimisms are one thing, I use them often in my writing, to reflect my speaking style as well. Even the occasional intentional mispelling to stress word intent (stoopid vs stupid). Honestly, my creative writing courses added to some of that style in writing, as well as some of my reading, but ALL of my english and writing teachers stressed to importance of knowing the foundations FIRST. I can’t see much evidence of such in those coming out of institutions these days. (Institutions instead of schools, schools educate, institutions indoctrinate.)
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December 12, 2018 at 12:25 pm