DISCLAIMER

For the last few years I have criticized the blogging community over and over again. This mainly stems from one general issue with most blogs I come across.

While I am no grammarian and generally a failure when it comes to using the English language properly, I find the rampant misspellings and horribly neglectful sentence structure of blogs to be mind-numbing. I just cannot take a person seriously when they continuously have common words misspelled and sentences that make no sense in their postings.

I guess I was expecting some form of hierarchy in the grammatical world. Of course at the top of that would be books that are printed and published. Hardbacks receive preference over paperbacks. Here is a bulleted list of the "grammar hierarchy" as I think it should be, starting with least leeway for mistakes down to most forgiving:

• Hardback Books
• Paperback Books
• Periodicals
• Major online internet sites that produce semi-static content
• Newspapers
• Major online internet sites that produce semi-fluid content
• AP/Reuters/etc.
• Blogs, Online Journals, Personal Webpages, etc.
• Listserve Postings/Online Forums
  
• General Email
• Social Networking sites
• IM/IRC
• Text messages received via cellphone
• Graffiti

The beauty of this list is that it has finally made me accept blogging. Over the last year or so I have noticed a spike in horribly misprinted headlines and sentences in stories on many major websites and in several papers that I read. Yet, I still continue to accept what they have to say and believe that there was thought and consternation put into the postings, regardless of what the final product may look like. So, with that in mind, I have decided to not concern myself with all of that old world concern for grammar and spelling and will delve into the blog world to post my generally cynical musings for the delectation of others.

So, there you go... I cannot write. I do not have any grammarian skills. (as you see I have sentences that are way to long and my punctuation is downright untamed) But, I have alot of thoughts in my head and it is probably healthy to purge them in some format.

So... expect to hear alot more from me, because man.... do I love to complain.