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August 07, 2010
Filed Under (Uncategorized) by Keith on 07-08-2010
One of my interests on t’Internet is to log onto a Blogger page, like John Gs for instance, and then keep clicking on the “Next Blog” icon. I have found so very interesting blogs, some great, some sad, some very instructional ones and a lot of awful examples of how not to blog. One particular site had so many smelling pistakes and bad grammar that it was almost unreadable. How that person ever got through school (if he ever went!) is beyond me. He was not just a teenager; from the photo he looked in the 25-35 year old range. I know I drop a few clangers in the spelling and grammar department occasionally, but my excuse is that I’m old and bent and suffer with demen . . . . . .What was I saying? Oh yes, about bad blogging techniques. One site I came across had so many flashing colours, god-awful pictures and grotesque fonts that it was really unreadable. A bright red background with mauve text that hurt my eyes just to look at it. I think the owner was just trying to show off her somewhat dubious skills in HTML and JavaScript. Christ, what a mess! No, I’m not going to put links to them; that would be unfair because no matter how bad a blog is the owner is invariably proud of it and it would be hurtful if people logged on and commented that it was a load of crap. I would certainly be offended if people told me mine was rubbish, when in actual fact I know that it is absolutely brilliant and well worth reading!
I think I’ll start a new blog on the various ways of juggling soot, knitting paint and engraving frozen peas then perhaps it’ll be more popular than this one! Now I’m off to do some more exploring in the bloggie-world. A tout à l’heure!
7 Comments posted on "Pointless blogs"
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Sarah on August 7th, 2010 at 2:32 am #
I admit to being a language snob. I try to be tolerant, conceding that all languages mutate over time, and that many people with varying backgrounds use English (their version) to communicate, and all that stuff. However. And ahem. I have to read (on a daily basis, I fear) many emails from people during my business day and I wonder a) how did they ever pass the tests and get hired; b) how do they ever manage to communicate to anyone? Example: I sent a brief email to my boss, asking him where (in which report) did he want me to correct the item in question. His answer: Yes. At least he spelled it correctly. Maybe I should have written it in Spanish. But I digress. I would like employees, coworkers, and bloggers to be able to compose a simple sentence, subject, verb, object, with all words spelled correctly, ending with a period. Is that too much to ask?
Anji on August 7th, 2010 at 8:04 am #
I agree up to a point, but there are lot of people making an effort to blog in English and it is not their first language. As an ex EFL teacher I admire the effort they put into their blogs. I hate the sparkly, multi-coloured, flashing blogs too.
Keith on August 7th, 2010 at 9:22 am #
Sarah and Anji: I did make allowance for the bloggers concerned not having English as their first language, but the blogs I mentioned are by British bloggers. Unfortunately I only learned English and German at school, with a smattering of French! Nowadays it seems that only Gibberish is used on some British blogs. Is it “learned” or “learnt”? I feel that “learnt” sounds better, but it’s not mentioned in my “Concise Oxford Dictionary” so obviously using it is frowned upon!
Invader_Stu on August 7th, 2010 at 12:38 pm #
It sounds like a Monty Python sketch. “In my day we were so poor we had to knit our own food.”
guyana gyal on August 7th, 2010 at 8:40 pm #
I like the knitted cakes! I can fill my eyes without stoking up on calories. Seriously though, what do people do with knitted cakes? Did you ask?
Anji on August 8th, 2010 at 9:45 am #
‘Learnt’ is the English English conjugation of the verb (to) learn. ‘Learned’ is American English
helen on August 9th, 2010 at 6:34 am #
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