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It must be a sign of the times (or the technology).
I had a client who spends thousands of dollars on promotional products tell me that when she receives a proposal that is written with poor grammer and misspelled words in the first paragraph she puts the proposal in the "circular file" without ever reading past the first paragraph.
Just today, I spoke w/ a recuiter from Full Sail University in Florida, who told me she turns down potential students every day because they can't complete a written sentence. She says it's like the new college students do everything in "text-ese".
My dilemma always comes when it comes to American dictionary spelling. (I'm British) Color or colour, memorize or memorise, judgment or judgement etc.
Can get confusing.
I'm sure I read some where that there's differences between American and Canadian spelling also ?
I hated that I couldn't necessarily refute any of those points. Let's turn it around!
How would your grammar look if you were to transcribe your speech from this video? Does video blogging exclude you from having to have good grammar?
I'm not really picking on you, but I'm wondering if grammar in speech is anywhere near as important as grammar in writing. I would say that it is not; although, there is a point at which too many ummms and likes can reflect very poorly on a person.
I bet that I made a grammatical error somewhere in this comment, since that usually happens when one gets on his grammar high horse.
But if your blog is dealing with 'writing good content', then probably you need to be good at that in the first place. Typical MMO and SEO blogs and the respective bloggers - shoe or chow - can be hence pardoned :D
Another thing, the latest trends like video blogging puts a lot of pressure on those bloggers who are naturally not very good at speaking. So let the bloggers decide their way of communication in their own style...
Please excuse any grammar issues. My first language is not English though we learned English as a second language :)
Cheers,
Ajith, Bangalore, India
I think that you're being from India gives you an excuse to make errors. I certainly wouldn't hold it against you.
Didn't you mean "their contribution?"
Mmm. Yeah. Uh huh, that's what I meant. Because obviously no one could possibly understand what I'm trying 2 komunikate wid out da spellings + words been da right 1z.
And appealing to children under 30 is a waste of time also. After all it's the mums and dads with the purchasing power isn't it? In fact I wouldn't consult or speak to for anyone under 70 as it could damage my credibility in the highly lucrative 80+ market.
Just watched your Flip for the first time and liked it. Very good point that Shoe's readers might
need to be fit for a job and get the thing with the "l", "e", "t", "t", "e", "r", "s" right.
Yours
John
P.S.: I am not a native English speaker. The hardest part for me is, "comma or no comma"
Your post is geared more towards those wanting to be hired or wanting to be somebody's employee. When I think most people read blogs like yours and others so they can be the boss. I could misspell words galore in this post and it's going to have zero affect on my business. You misspelled grammar in one of your replies but it's the internet (blog, forum etc) so not a big deal. But I do think that kind of thing is important for something like your site. I've seen some merchant sites with misspellings and it's not a good look.
it's a dis-service to yourself and your audience
It won't necessarily ruin your career people, but before circulating anything outside your inner circle you have got to have it looking professional.
Now let me just re-read this comment five times to make sure I didn't make any mistakes, THAT would be embarrassing...! :-)
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