Don’t sweat misspelled words in your blog
Hvae you raed any bogls taht tlel you taht seplilng eevry wrod crecorclty is a ncectisey to get yuor pniot aorcscs? I say taht is blulihst. You olny need to mkae srue you get the frist and lsat ltetres creroct for yuor rdarees to raed it crecorclty. Nxet tmie snmoeoe teirs to creroct yuor seplilng, gvie tehm tihs tset to see if tehy are albe to raed it.
Translation:
Have you read any blogs that tell you that spelling every word correctly is a neccesity to get your point across? I say that is bullshit. You only need to make sure you get the first and last letters correct for your readers to read it correctly. Next time someone tries to correct your spelling, give them this test to see if they are able to read it.
The focus of your blog should be to tell an interesting story and not worry about perfect grammar and spelling. If you want your blog to have an heir of professionalism, correct grammar and spelling should be attempted, but should not be a show stopper. Has anyone ever tried to “help” you by pointing out spelling mistakes in your posts? If so, tell me about it. I will make a confession here. I did correct someone’s misspelling on a post a couple months ago, but it was my name that they misspelled, so I felt within my rights to correct that.
Don’t worry about all those small indiscretions, take up my new motto, “Just Blog”.
Posted on August 24, 2007
By Jason Spence
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another great post
I share your view, a spelling error two shows that you are “human”
I can only hope that you wrote “an heir of professionalism” in jest, and really would have written it as ‘an air’, otherwise I wanna know what is going to inherit all that baggage from professionalism?
Keep up the good work Spence.
Have I mentioned lately that your an ass James. You may have inherited that trait, so I won’t hold it against you.
Don’t you mean you’re or you are?
And you make your accusation as if I would take offense (which offends me, actually). I’ve worked very hard over the years to become a top-notch ass.