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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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Blackadder and Red Dwarf

ahh, maybe time add Blackadder and Red Dwarf to the list :-) Percy walks in sporting a particularly eccentric ruff, to which Blackadder's response was "you look like a bird who's swallowed a plate." Jeeves and Wooster with Fry and Laurie is also very good. Join Xomba Here

I am often under the influence of proper English

As my profile says, I am a big fan of Eddie Izzard and Ricky Gervais (more the latter lately thanks to YouTube). Throw in some Monty Python or Fawlty Towers and I can legally be considered under the influence of proper English. JOIN XOMBA NOW--DON'T WASTE ANOTHER MINUTE!

Editing comments

"And then the next day Xomba won't let me edit my comments, too late!" You can edit your comments until (if) someone replies to them; after that they can't be changed by the person who wrote them. Only the intervention of the mighty all-knowing Abmox can make changes then. I try to never write, comment, etc. late at night, or after more than 3 margaritas.

:-) jdubhub in UK the word

:-) jdubhub in UK the word program is used only for computer programs, taking it from US English. All other uses of the word use programme, like TV programme. Join Xomba Here

That's real "English", Publius

As hard as it must be on our eyes, their writing is closer to the original Queen's English that what we have on this side of the Pond. The irony is that if it wasn't for the French, we'd still be speaking English. JOIN XOMBA NOW--DON'T WASTE ANOTHER MINUTE!

Me Too!

I can tell where you are from from the way you spell programme. In America we spell it program. So it all depends on the reader. I too can't spell in the middle of the night, and reread some Xomba comments, where I wrote to, instead of too. And then the next day Xomba won't let me edit my comments, too late! Never write while tired!

"Lastly, I've seen your tracks here. This time I noticed."

For some reason, I appreciated that comment; - you know, even though it works with a sinister tone (think Terminator) :p Poetry: (see the semi-colon, Mr Rycharde Manne?! :D ) I'm not one for Scottish/Irish poets. Not even Rabbie Burns! Or Seamus Heany (drowning kittens just isn't my kinda jazz). Byron (who spent his early life in my home town); - he's probably my favourite poet, although his friend Shelley wrote some decent stanzas too. Gotta thank you guys for the comments and also for all the mysterious, anonymous folks who 1+'ed this Xombyte. Cheers, folks. PS. Mr Les Porter; where I am, in Scotland, only the brightest stars & planets are visible (Orion, The Plough, Venus, Mars, etc). The west coast is just amazing for star-gaxing. We went over there for Hogmany and the Milky Way was visible - simply amazing. My interest in astronomy is connected to my love of science/physics; - which, I'm afraid, I can't quite explain. I was terrible at the subject of science in school o_0

Aye, and you may be right. but U?

Aye. And aye, again. For all the grammar, or thereof lack, what can you Make of Finnegan's Wake? Eh? And what do you know of James Lovelock? Or make of his fondness for this ditty. . . (which I will paraphrase and slaughter.) Aye, they Scheme and Lie and Cheat and Steal and they go to church on Sunday And aye! its true, that some fear God but they all fear Mrs. Grundy. . . =============================== Girl from Scotland, ah. It is not that good a place to see stars or planets or galaxies, so what is this astronomy hobby? I think you can write as well as you want to write. But that could be the question? Eh? (I'm not sure to be a fan, but I liked your little "write." I know I should say more to others when they post a pretty perky piece. Think about Time.) And finally, I do use the "checker" which is part of firefox and I must add words to the dictionary every time I write something, it seems, but I still miss or damage what I mean to say especially when tired, and just try to post before crashing. Lastly, I've seen your tracks here. This time I noticed.

But I do also have the

But I do have the tendency to - once in a blue moon - use 'their' instead of 'they're' and whatnot. And then I feel dirty afterwards, try to fix the mistake and hope to gawd no one saw. Also, colons and semi-colons are awesome.

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