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What is a Blog? Really!
A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is "blogging" and someone who keeps a blog is a "blogger." Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog. ...
So I put it to you, the members, are we seeing blogs written by bloggers or are we seeing messages left on a message board by messengers?
When a "blog" is written without sentence or paragraph breaks, no use of upper or lower case letters, misspellings and text code, is it a blog, an elaborate text message or someone who ditched English class?
Make an effort, people.
If what I am reading is the wave of the future, then our civilization and the English language as we know it is in deep trouble.
I am all for sharing your thoughts, but frame it so that it can be understood with minimal interpretation skills.
I have written about 65 blogs since joining the website. Many here have posted ONE blog/message-never to be heard from again. Blogger, my a**.
No; it doesn't have to be Shakespearian. Some of you know who William Shakespeare was, right?
But please, it's "I"; not "i", "you" and not "u"; "are"; not "r". And if it's not too much trouble, a period, comma or semi-colon would add texture to your "blog".
F.O.G.I.E. and proud of it.
TCSS.
Art
So I put it to you, the members, are we seeing blogs written by bloggers or are we seeing messages left on a message board by messengers?
When a "blog" is written without sentence or paragraph breaks, no use of upper or lower case letters, misspellings and text code, is it a blog, an elaborate text message or someone who ditched English class?
Make an effort, people.
If what I am reading is the wave of the future, then our civilization and the English language as we know it is in deep trouble.
I am all for sharing your thoughts, but frame it so that it can be understood with minimal interpretation skills.
I have written about 65 blogs since joining the website. Many here have posted ONE blog/message-never to be heard from again. Blogger, my a**.
No; it doesn't have to be Shakespearian. Some of you know who William Shakespeare was, right?
But please, it's "I"; not "i", "you" and not "u"; "are"; not "r". And if it's not too much trouble, a period, comma or semi-colon would add texture to your "blog".
F.O.G.I.E. and proud of it.
TCSS.
Art
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Lion Apparel Protective Systems Group USA on
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Oh... Art IS the Yoda. He da MAN! We are merely the young Jedi padawan learners...
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Permalink Reply by Art "ChiefReason" Goodrich on
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Touche'.
I like the cut of your jib.
Here is an observation for your consumption: until the younger generation steps up and takes over the leadership roles in this country, then texting will be the pre-occupation amongst them that gets their phone privileges at work taken away, will get them killed if they are doing it while driving and will destroy any semblance of correct spelling and enunciation of words.
There is power to written and spoken words.
Acronyms and single letters, unless there is an index to identify them, will languish unnoticed, because the meaning was lost in its translation.
I have sent a few text messages and emails from my phone. That doesn't change anything for me. The reason kids use letters instead of complete words is because they are trying to read what's on the whiteboard with one eye and their phone keyboard with the other, with the phone obscured by their desk top.
It is also done while waiting for the stoplight to change. It's a speed thing; I understand that.
But around here; well, it's back to that respect thing.
Imagine using text code to call in a HazMat. Yeah; I can see that day coming. Methyl trichloroacetate will now be known as mthl3klro s tit.
You got style,though.
TCSS.
Art
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Permalink Reply by Karen on
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Bravo!!
Everything you have posted here, Art, is exactly what I've been thinking to myself as I sift through the "blogs" of people here. After reading some of the blog subjects, sometimes I think to myself, why on earth would someone type THAT on a public forum?
Personally, I am NOT interested in hearing how, at age 16, you feel that your life is over because you've lost "the love of your life". Save that crap for MYSpace.
The grammar and punctuation I've seen used on this site is unbelievable. Makes me wonder how many of the posters slept through English class while in school. I understand that not everyone is an excellent speller, but please folks, at least MAKE AN EFFORT to spell words correctly, it will definitely add to your post.
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Yeah; I sucked at math but man, could I spell.
I remember growing up. It was pants crisply creased, shirts neatly folded, straight part in my hair and punctuation in my sentences, dammit.
Oh; I remember more from growing up, but I'm saving that for a BLOG!:)
For those of you who don't know, when you don't have emoticons, you can use the text version of colon and right parenthesis as symbol for a "happy face".
TCSS.
Art
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Permalink Reply by Amber on
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I bet you can remember writing letters too. Actual pieces of paper with a writing instrument such as a pencil or a pen. Does anyone write such a thing anymore? Those certainly didn't have spell check, you had to use a dictionary and a thesaurus.
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Permalink Reply by Jenny Holderby on
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"congjunction junction what's your function. . . "
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Yeah; I was really into dinosaurs while growing up. Brontosaurus was my favorite one. Thesauruses could fly couldn't they?
TCSS.
Art
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Art, I think you are thinking of the Synonymsaurus or is it the Synonymousaurus? I think they both can fly.
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Permalink Reply by Tony P on
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Writing letters in pencil? Never! What a crude way to... Oh, wait a minute - some quite famous people have been known to do that. I'm not famous, so not me.
As a computer analyst/programmer I used a pencil all the time - we had to be able to erase all record of our involvement somehow!
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Permalink Reply by Mick Mayers on
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Art-
You said:
Amber:
You have learned well.
You are wise beyond your youthful years.
Punctuation is your friend.
Run-on sentences are illegal in some states.
Vermont comes to mind.
TCSS.
It looks like haiku to me. Are you shooting for that effect? If so, it's looking good. :)
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