If there's one thing about the internet that I absolutely hate, it's netspeak. "r u there" instead of "Are you there?" or stupid acronyms like ROFL or LOL. Like anyone in the real world would ever actually say "rolling on the floor laughing" or "laughing out...
Just a short post today, since I've got to go play Ultimate in a little bit. Continuing what has apparently become a short series on the English language, I'd like to talk about one thing that I don't like about the language: the lack of gender-neutral pronouns. When writing, especially anything...
Continuing with the English theme that I started with my last post, I'm here to talk to you today about one of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to the English language: the improper use of the words me, myself, and I. Well, it's really about me and I, but it just fits as a title better if...
One thing that has always bugged me about blogs is the relative lack of proofreading and editing of online writings. In my opinion, all this really does is make the writer seem ignorant and stupid. In print media, everything is read by at least one other person before it is published. Of course, online...
So, November is National Blog Posting Month . This is an idea that started last year, as an offshoot of the National Novel Writing Month , for those writers in the blogosphere. The idea is that you write at least one blog post a day for the entire month. I'm a couple of days late, but I figured I'd...
Since I've been writing these things for a couple of months now, I've come back to the one thing that I always hated when I was writing regularly in high school and college: writing introductions and conclusions. Obviously, these two items have their places in a piece, but I've always had...