In high school, would you turn in a paper before proofing it? In college, would you even think about being that stupid?
Point is, why are people dumb enough to exhibit their laziness on the Internet? Remember what you are posting is a mirror into who you are!
Lately I've come across a few blogs that have some good ideas but the point the blogger is trying to make gets lost in some mumbo jumbo of horrid punctuation or seventh grade grammar. So let me recommend the following:
- Type your Internet masterpiece in MS Word; that wonderful software will check for spelling and grammar.
- Proof the flow. What you are writing, well, does the shit make sense? Oooh! Is that a run on sentence? Or is that a double negative? Does a+b=c?
- If it makes sense to you, it may not make sense to others so until you feel comfortable with your blogging, have someone else (that's smarter than you) proof read it.
Point of all this is: no one is going to take what you write seriously if you write like crap. So instead of shooting from the hip and blogging whatever flows out of your ADD head, slow down and try to make sense. The blogger world will take what you say more seriously...and you will not shame your family with your horrible writing skills that may set back human communication two thousand years.
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