So yesterday I had a grammar mistake in my post. I’d like to say typo but the fact of the matter is I used You’re instead or Your and I never noticed. Quite a few people have noted the mistake, sent me messages about it and now it’s corrected, which is all fine and it should have been the end of the story. But I really wanted to share this choice email I got about the issue. It’s a bit lengthy and goes in-depth about the rules of you and you’re so I won’t post all of it here but I felt this part was the best.
Any serious blogger should be aware of the rules I just explained and pay attention to what they write and how they write it. Having an audience is a privilege and your readers deserve a text that is free of grammatical errors. Any less is an insult to them and their intelligence.
Well, dear readers, I am truly sorry for all the mistakes I have made and made you suffer through. I will lash myself until I am worthy of your attention.
Your undeserving servant, Lonomonkey
I prefer to read blogs where the rules of basic grammar are followed and the spelling is correct. It’s true. I even wrote a rant about it once.
That being said, I’ve never been a big enough asshole to actually write to a person to chastise them for their mistakes. Though if I had done so, I would have been certain to pick on someone who was blogging in their second language.
If you’re going to be an asshole, you might as well be a big one. amirite?
Yeah, shoot for gold!
Wow….. *shake head slowly*
Okay, true story. One of the guys that I work for sends out a daily report to about 1500 people. He has a great intro with all sorts of crazy facts that he has picked up over the years. And every once in a while, he makes a mistake, a miscalculation or whatnot. When he does, you can BET that a lot of those 1500 readers reply, and though they are all really nice about it (not like your person), it’s always histerical going through all those e-mails (which is my job). When I joke with Jim about it, he always points out that he used to be a college professor, and as a teacher, it is his job to make mistakes so that the students can be smart – you know, to see if they are paying attention.
I had noticed that small error yesterday, but as you’d been kind enough to write a long article for the general public, free of charge, as a service for people to choose to read or not…I passed it by with barely a 2nd thought.
Keep up the good work, as always we read and enjoy, but don’t always comment.
Thanks, it does means a lot to me to know that there is normal adjusted people out there. Thanks a lot!
It is Thank You, not Thanks…. *evil grin*
It is a big internet, you write how you want, and people read what they want, I see no reason why this should conflict
OK, you know that people are assholes, right? And to get this email address at which he/she contacted you, he/she would have visited your ABOUT page where the email address is listed. The ABOUT page also has a CLEAR message that English is not your first language and that you are aware that spelling errors will occur. That information has been there since the beginning of time.
So, in conclusion, this asshole should learn basic reading comprehension and in his haste to BE RIGHT, not miss important information RIGHT ON THE SAME PAGE.
Here are my two cents. In my biography I let the readers know what they are in for. It is my blog consisting of my thoughts as I am having them. It is a diary I have decided to share with the world. I do not check for grammar or punctuation because that would imply I am over thinking my random thoughts. I agree that any serious blog should play by the rules but who ever said that a blog had to be serious? Blogs are about as individual as the person writing them and I know I am smart enough to figure out regardless of all the grammatical rules. Personally I would rather read an honest article than one sanitized by all the rules!
I feel the same but I do try to watch out because I want to improve my english writing skills. Still, if I make a mistake I don’t lose sleep over it, like you said, it’s a blog after all.
Did you ask them what it’s like to have a pickle shoved up their ass, sideways?
(Just because one makes a mistake regarding the rules, it doesn’t mean they don’t know the rules. I bet that asshole has gone through a yellow light when they could have stopped safely.)
You need a colon when referencing a quotation. Should be:
“It’s a bit lengthy and goes in-depth about the rules of you and you’re so I won’t post all of it here but I felt this part was the best:”
GAWD UR GRAMMARZ R SO BADZ. L2BLOG DOOD. Clearly your email writer is correct and you should do several things now; 1) give up your blog, 2) write a profuse apology post about how your grammar mistake has caused undue stress and strain upon his delicate psyche, 3) apologize to the world for letting us down with your negligence, 4) and finally video the lashings because there are several sites out there that really pay top dollar for that torture-porn shit. I mean, I heard that there were some. I mean, not like I go there or anything. That’s sick. Disgusting.
… unless you’re into that. I mean, you know, just in case.
Uh.
Well … I’ll be going now.
The going rate is about 20$ per lash… not that I would know such things…
Grammar mistakes can be corrected, but being an asshole is forever
“Having an audience is a privilege and your readers deserve a text that is free of grammatical errors.”
Did anyone else point out that this is a run-on sentence?
Subject 1 : the gerund phrase “having an audience” / verb 1: “is”
Subject 2: the noun phrase “your readers” / verb 2: “deserve”
Where’s the comma to go with the coordinating conjunction?
I’m an English professor, and I couldn’t care less about grammar errors in others’ (I almost forgot the apostrophe there) posts as long as they don’t interfere with communication, which is the goal of good grammar and writing in general. If it doesn’t really screw up the message, then no harm, no foul. I get a lot of flak from people that expect me to correct their grammar or speaking, but honestly, doing so has never interested me at all. Hell, I apparently mispronounced wyverns (The “y” is a long “i” sounds, as it derives from vipers) for YEARS without being corrected. Everyone screws up. I find typos in my posts all the time, and I double and sometimes triple proofread them. Getting salty about doesn’t do anyone any good.
What’s the lesson here? Like the Juggernaut, I’m the English Professor, Bitch!
Don’t mess with me or the blogs I frequent! (;
Bwhahaha, thank you for spotting these
Damnit I have an error, too – the “s” on “sounds” in the wyvern’s part. It happens to all of us!
hahaha this is awesome. It reminds me of the part in A Knights Tale when the Chaucer gets in trouble for gambling, and he tells the guys running the gambling thing that he will get his revenge by “eviscerating [them] in fiction.”
Be careful sending rants to people who often post in public forums
You might recognize yourself in their next work >: )
First rule of trolling: If you can’t attack content, attack the grammar and spelling.
The lengthy criticism seems over the top to me. Keep up the good work and don’t worry about the grammar nazis, well meaning as they may be.
f nazis, grammar or otherwise.
You should have posted at the end “You’re undeserving servant, Lonomonkey” for extra lulz factor!