glad to see that someone else is equaly adament about pour spellers its always been a pet peave of mine just like people who don't signal when there making a right turn and I think there are a lot of people who think that those who complain about speling airs are anul retentave or something.just my two sense

wurd

I coudl do proof readign easy, and i'd be resl good at i!
excetp when i'n im a rush...

Actually, my pet peeve on the web are the folks who use "script kiddee hacker-esee" -- things like "ROTFOL! U R so kewl" or "U R 0wn3d!!" For god's sake, if you're in so big a hurry that you can't be bothered to write out "you" (three keystrokes) instead of "U" (two keystrokes, once you count holding down the shift key), you're probably in way to big a hurry for me.

And, just for the record, I had to correct 10 words just for this post. That's what, something like 10%?

Eric has been bullied into apologizing to Blogcritics for saying many of them are embarrassingly bad spellers. Apparently, the culprits, many of them mouthy Right Wingers, piled on him and he caved. Instead of saying less, he needs to say more. Many bloggers' grammar is as bad as their spelling. And, most important of all, too many of them don't have a thing in the world to say. Their entries remind me of overheard cell phone conversations. One wonders why someone is spending around $50 a month to engage in chatter that would shame the characters in Dumb and Dumber.

MD, in this case it was the opposite. No one complained or asked me to apologize - I heard from many people who were concerned that their work was causing problems, some who haven't been contributing for fear of being substandard, and I felt that I had conveyed the wrong message. And it has nothing to do with wings - left or right.

I absolutely want people to check their spelling, edit their work, do their best, try to improve, but I don't want them to be afraid to contribute or to feel threatened.

I want us all to do our best and improve, not to fear retribution for something less than perfection.

I am not perfect - how could I expect anyone else to be?

Ahhh . . . winning friends and influencing people one mouth breathing comment at a time:

Lloyd Christmas: So where are you headin'?
Mary Swanson: Aspen.
Lloyd Christmas: Hmmm, California! Beautiful!

I know these people too well to believe that, Eric. All you have to do is make an allusion to quality and T.David will round up his minions and start carping. Currently, he is promoting the semiliterate, foul-mouthed and puerile RJ Elliott as a role model for what a Blogcritic should be. No wonder the bright Blogcritics tend to leave. Others who are still on the blogroll have said they rarely post or comment because they are disgusted by the lack of standards.

Chris, why do you continue to waste your time trying to write? You have been blogging longer than I have and I have never seen a single post by you that was worth reading. Just one example of boundless stupidity behind another. And, now, I hear you've lost your day job, too. They must have finally caught on. Pathetic.

Hey MD, cut him some slack, we can't all be influential. Case in point, I noticed you linked me a while back on Technorati yet there was actually only one hit I caught from Wack-a-doodles or Mac-a-Trannies or whatever. Don't you have any juice with your readers?

MD --

You must have me mixed up with another Chris . . . all us white guys look alike.

Careful, there. According to TDavid, the phrase 'white boy' is a racial slur. 'White guys' can't be far behind. (The thought of the millions of birth certificates that will need to be changed to . . . whatever . . . is mind-boggling. On the bright side, the campaign to convince people of this awful problem will keep him very busy.)

Joe (I'm assuming the one with the smallness problem) that would turn on what the link was about. Some generate 'juice,' others don't. For example, today's Apple column will be greeted by most readers with yawns, because most of them are Wintel users. If I remember correctly, you were described as a bad blogger in your link, so count your blessings.

Eric, when the NYT starts noticing how bad spelling is on blogs, it is time to take the problem seriously. The number of people who read the aricle Joe cited dwarfs overall blog readership more times than I can bear to think about. And, a disproportionate share of those readers are agenda setters, people who determine societal standards. This is an embarrassment to blogs.

In regard to the great name debacle, must we have so many guys named Chris, Joe, Mark, and, yes, Eric, in the blogosphere? Couldn't y'all use something less common?

The names for Scottish drag queens were all taken. Sorry.

I'm with MD. All this pour gramarr and mithspelling is a write-wingeydingy conspirousey!

Er, actually, it was the phrase (said with extreme sarcasm) 'Right Wing white boy', Mac Diva. If you are going to invite me into a conversation, you should be sure to at least quote me properly ;)

If you don't think that what you said and how you said that was racist, Mac Diva, then riddle me this: why the need to make the distinction at all: 'white boy'?

That sentence would have been absolutely fine (though still probably flawed) without the use of that label, but somehow you found it ok to add that label. What if someone else had made the same statement who was white and he/she inserted 'black boy' in there ... now would that be racist?

Of course it would! You'd call for the poster's head. You'd write a dozen seething blog entries about it, trackbacking it as evidence that the Blogcritics site supports racists. You'd toot this horn for days and weeks to come. And you know what? For one time, actually, you'd be right.

Problem is that somehow these same set of standards aren't applicable to yourself and what you say about people who are white. It's time you look in the mirror.

I'm sorry that you are upset about what happened in the slavery times but every person who disagrees with you on the web wasn't there.

And I'm still waiting on you to produce one single hyperlink, a single specific quote from me where I ever 'defended' Sam Vaknin. Another unfounded accusation with absolutely no bearing in reality.

Thanks for the love! :)

Oh, and for those who are interested the entire quote from Mac Racist is available here.

Now that is how to link to a source quote, Mac Racist. Maybe you can do the same for me with this 'I'm defending Sam Vaknin' garbage you keep trying to ramble on about, again without any basis in reality whatsoever.

And while you are at it, Mac Racist, maybe you can at last provide answers to your hypocrisy that is detailed in this thread: comment #32

Oh man the truth and facts hurt for some people ...

As for this whole spelling errors thing? Come on.

The blogosphere isn't the New York Times!

I'm thinking that the New York Times must be getting pretty worried about their circulation numbers -- or having serious content problems -- if they are drawing upon such informal communication as messageboard posts, instant messages and blogs as the technical equivalent of professional writing.

Slow day in the newsroom, indeed.

Ugh.