Monday, April 16, 2007

Why you should pay attention to what I write, not how I write it.

Like everyone else in the universe, I am not perfect. There will be grammatical mistakes here, and someone will see them.

Just don't get nasty about it, okay? A simple "Hey, did you know you mispelled HAXXOR!!!??!!!" will suffice. Treat me like a moron, and I'll delete your comment. Play nice, and I'll admit to the mistake, fix it, and give you credit for making me look silly.

Two things to remember today:

1)If you have a list of three or more things, use a comma to separate. None of this "hot dogs, hamburgers and bocaburgers," please. It's "hot dogs, hamburgers, and Boca burgers." Unless, of course, you like to mash up your hamburgers and Boca burgers into one congealed pseudo-vegetarian-but-not-really mash.

2) No matter what your high school English teacher told you, do not, not, NOT put an extra space between a period and the beginning of the next sentence. One will do just fine. Most people no longer use typewriters, which necessitated the space for clarity's sake. But no longer. All it does is make things more difficult for people like myself who then have to go back through your entire document and fix it.

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