Comments on: It’s Not Your Fault I Can’t Spell

By: 131 Star Bloggers and Their Best Posts | Catherine Lawson

131 Star Bloggers and Their Best Posts | Catherine Lawson — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:38:56 +0000

[...] Barbara Swafford has been a great friend and loyal supporter. She writes at Blogging Without A Blog and Observation Mountain. She supports and encourages new bloggers and features a new and promising blogger each week in her New Blogger Of The Week section. Barbara has also written some brilliant articles including: Commenting vs Social Media – Is One Better? and It’s Not Your Fault I Can’t Spell. [...]

By: Barbara Swafford

Barbara Swafford — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:34:59 +0000

Hi Linda,

Your philosophy is like that of many others, leave the alone

Hi Jennifer,

Glad you like the plugin, and hope it works for you. It’s easy to set up.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:43:08 +0000

This new plugin is soooo cool. I love it! I’ve never seen it before. I may have to take a closer look at this.

I correct some comments, but I really don’t see that many that I need to correct.

Jennifers last blog post..A Simple Formula with a Huge Life Impact

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:26:05 +0000

We should not correct other folks comments! Everyone does the best that they can at the moment! typos, mispellings, whatever is a fact of blogosphere so we just need to relax and enjoy the comments we get!

By: hyrcan

hyrcan — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:32:55 +0000

Hello world. I am your worst speller.

No kidding, I am. The. worst.

The only reason it’s not more apparent is because the computers I use have built in spell check in all the text boxes I use. So when I’ve spelled “definatly” incorrect yet again, the red line shows up… and I got back and retype it… definitely. Or I right click and bring up the cheat menu and let the computer do the work for me. Though, teacher and beat poet, Taylor Mali has gotten me better at spelling from his performance on YouTube of “What Teachers Make” and “The Impotence of Proofreading.”

I certainly don’t think you should be correcting typos, that would take an insane amount of time to keep up at it. I’ve got other things to do besides correcting typos. Of course… that’s assuming I’d notice them.

I am the worst.

It doesn’t irritate me, because of my own short comings, and I know not everyone has english as native language.

I do get irritated when people use txt-ing words or “|337″ speak in long form writing. Unless they are doing it as a matter of style.

Oh, and I also am a fan of being able to edit my own comments, even for a little while. I like having the option to correct my comment when I leave out a closing html tag, nothing more embarrassing than breaking a page because you forgot a / or completely left out a word.