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I Can Has Writing Skillz?

posted February 20, 2009 - 3:21pm
I Can Has Writing Skillz?

It’s okay. Maybe nobody noticed….*glances around* Did they? No, no, I don’t think so. Phew. After the recent undercurrent of anti bad-grammar/terrible-writing-skills/atrocious-spelling feelings, I thought maybe some folks would notice and then think I was doing it on purpose. But I swear, I wasn’t! < p>

I didn’t mean to spelling it ‘beliving’ instead of 'believing' or to omit several important adjectives so that my sentences read like a slurring, drunken Albanian pirate first thing in the morning. Honestly, if those comments I posted were ever marked by the Board of Education it would be in red pen with letters such as F and D- written all over. Although in saying that, I’ve heard in recent years that they are now allowing children to write in txt-language on their exams; - you know, the whole ‘2’ means ‘to’/’too’ or ‘u’ means ‘you’. Anyways, I digress so I won’t speak of that jazz (and also because it really pisses me off).

Don’t worry, it’s been corrected now; those double letters and missing words that seemed to pop up at least 3 or so times in every comment I posted this evening. It’s just that I’ve been working real hard all day; Lady Luck and Mr Fate joined forces to challenge me by making sure I work with a bunch of mean-assed (not mention lazy and racist) psycho-beasts.
So, you see, they’ve all guaranteed that I’m exhausted by the end of the day with my brain buzzing around my skull, chasing a multiplex of thoughts and feelings. Sometimes I can be thinking of these thoughts and maybe, for a second or two, I space-out and forget about what I’m writing, omitting a few words as I go. So…you know… that’s why my sentence might read “There once was a Canada flew out of the sky” instead of “There once was a badger named Jeff and he went on holiday to Canada. Monkeys flew out of his butt and the sky was on fire.” See? The last sentence made much more sense….grammatically. I didn't mean to miss out whole sections of sentences tonight,they just....escaped.

Also, it’s Friday and I’m trying to get some writing done (albeit apathetically) before spending some much needed alcohol-fuelled/quality time with my loving, understanding spouse. Again, my concentration for writing flags somewhat.

I have music playing at the moment. Not any specific genre, just a medley of tunes ranging from up-beat country to epic classical to somewhat-heavy metal. These varying tempos and lyrics and song-provoked-vibes can also contribute to my writing quality, or lack thereof. Seriously, I didn’t mean to write ‘form’ instead of ‘from’, or ‘thougrts’ when it should have been ‘thoughts’.

So I’m sorry if anyone noticed my many writing mistakes this evening but I have a lot on my mind and I think it also has some problems of its own o_0.

At least with this article, I have used a Word programme instead of writing directly into the Xombyte space as I usually do. Although, due to my sometimes ‘colloquial’ style of writing, words like ‘gonna’, ‘kinda’ and ‘ain’t’ tend to show up as spelling errors. I refuse to change/correct them; - I like writing the way I speak.
I like writing to y’all in a relax kind of manner. It’s not like I write this way when communicating on a professional level. It doesn’t mean I slur my words in ‘real-life’, nor does it mean I have no grasp on the English language.

So please, don’t judge my writing when it contains a grammatical error or a spelling mistake. Don’t think I do not care about the quality of my writing or that I am lazy. I’m simply human and I make mistake......o_0

And also, I do has writing skillz.



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don't be lazy

The U.S. has one of the worst educational systems in the world. High school and even college students are allowed to graduate who are functionally illiterate if not worse. Sometimes I suspect that my Baby Boomer generation was the last to get a decent education, back in those quaint days when you had to have more than just basic reading and writing skills to earn a diploma or degree. I don’t believe there’s an excuse for using bad grammar and spelling unless you’re truly mentally challenged. So if you don’t know the rules, master them. Don’t torture others with your lousy syntax and spelling. If you want your great ideas disseminated, then learn how to write about them effectively. Don’t force the rest of us to write or read “down” just to accommodate you, learn how to write “up” and earn that title of “writer”. Don't be lazy!

veghead's Xombytes

Sometimes, just sometimes,

people do not have/are not allowed access to the written word. In those cases, when they come to writing down their ideas or thoughts, they are limited to the whole spell-it-how-it-sounds approach. This can be frustrating to read but I imagine it's more frustrating to have your ideas thrown in the trash because nobody will take the time to decypher the writing. I agree that it is annoying to read a badly spelled/written piece but I also appreciate the fact that ideas and feelings are *gasp* more valueable than writing.

you really like comas, X__X?

As for me, I kinda like a well-functioning brain, not to mention soopurb speling, but then I'm wired (weird?) that way!

veghead's Xombytes

It is all English to me !

Make money by writing here What is going on here is all English to me.Sometime back I overheard in some forum , a comment about the stupid English the real English speak write and breathe.Now it is all bad programs to them . But we can't help . We still write about our Programmes, that get underlined in all programs of word processing. We were taught and trained to write about our programmes and is too difficult to change now. Of late We too get some Bookers, and Oscars . They say Language is for communication, and If it does not serve this purpose, it ceases to be a language. "I too has can write English" as long as I convey my message.

Not Gonna Change

I like writers that use natural language. Mark Twain was one of the first to do that. If it's good enough for Mark Twain then it's gonna be good enough for you.

Interestingly Enough

This is the first ever thing I have read on Xomba. I guess you just drilled into my head how important it is to watch my spelling and grammar here. Thanks so much! I'll keep it in mind. =)

Loved this. You have great

Loved this. You have great style. I know exactly where you're coming from as I tend to write the way I speak too. Thanx for sharing.

Andrea Carmichael

smeg head

I didn't know about the Stewart story - smeg head! If anything Red Dwarf is very much like the film Dark Star. Took me a while to get into it after the umpteenth vindaloo joke, luckily Crichton saved the series. Hard to remember he wasn't there at the start. Join Xomba Here

Red Dwarf...

...is hilarious. I heard Patrick Stewart was told about Red Dwarf and decided to sue (because, you know, it was set in space just like Star Trek). He then actually watched an episode or two and decided to drop the case because the programme/program made him laugh so much. Also, the Monty Python boys are heroes :)

I'll have to check those out...

With the exception of BBC America, I don't get any other British broadcasting on the telly, but I'll have to check out some Region 1 DVD's at my local store. JOIN XOMBA NOW--DON'T WASTE ANOTHER MINUTE!

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