Michael Cortes wrote an interesting article about how important good spelling and grammar are in a technologically modern world, and here is my take on it with reference to blogging.
Yes, spelling and grammar are important! However, we need to remember that the beauty of the blogging platform is that it gives everybody an opportunity to have their say. The downside of this is that it brings all of our grammatical warts along with that.
Very few of us are professional journalists or copywriters, so most of us are going to make the occasional error in our writing. Now I am not using this as an excuse for poor quality grammar and spelling, we must still proof-read our work, get it as correct as possible, and correct errors when we find them.
But dear reader, please remember that I am writing this blog for the love of it (and so are most of my fellow bloggers), and to share what information I feel I can. I will make the occasional mistake, but please indulge me when I do.
BTW: I spell using UK english, so I hope I don’t put you off-colour!
(I just realised that I wrote this whole post using the word grammer instead of grammar, but at least I realised!).
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