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Do Bloggers Need To be Perfect In English?

Posted on July 4, 2010

Bloggers are not communication arts and language skills expert. They might forgot to put an "s" in some word, and they might exaggerate words in english language. First of all, English language is a very good example of a public domain, so nobody owns it. It is vital to use english language in blogging because it is known as International Language. The purpose of language is primarily for communication. Since language is use in communication, we must observe proper grammar especially in writing articles.

So the right answer to this blogpost question is, Bloggers need to be perfect in english. But nobody is perfect, so there is no perfect writer or blogger. All i can say is we must maintain good grammar and communication level even it is not perfect but just closely by giving our best in writing. Bloggers are not just here to give good grammar or to prove that they are good in English. The primary reason of a blogger like me is to provide quality information based on knowledge and experience.

If the blogger has a wrong grammar, is it okay to correct him? Of course, correcting one blogger on his own mistakes is an act of concern to the writer but you need to say it in a nice way. First is you need to comment with love, concern and care. Second is you don't need to exaggerate things that seems to be hurtful on the side of a blogger. The next one is you need to identify yourself, this includes correcting a blogger in person not just in comment and if possible with confidentiality like someone did it to me when I mistakenly write "She" instead of "He". Another one is you need to be frank to a person if you are angry or upset to him, not on finding ways how to hurt him or make his day bad. Lastly, you need to check on primary concern and purpose of the blog before correcting whatever is the content even it includes grammatical error.

When fredrich commented on my blogpost, i thank him/her for correcting me, and giving effort to what he is doing. But when the time that I hear some hurtful words such as "no sense" I think i need to give an advise. First is Mr. English will not comment and give such effort to hurt daycody.com if he don't know the writer in person. Upon my experience in human behavior, there might be an insecurity and a need of attention. I was also discourage when linking watchtower.org and use the link in his name looks like pretending that he is a Christian. I know my blog contains biblical advices, but the purpose of those is to help other humans and not to promote this blog to have more readers or income. He might pretend that he practice to be a Christian, but remember that true Christian "shows genuine love among themselves" and don't practice "that they are greater than somebody else" and not just commenting a very common bible text and basic principles, but knows deeper knowledge on what is written on it, and lastly they give respect even someone is grammatically incorrect but understand the purpose why it is written. Even you know what is right, it is not good to correct people in whatever way possible just to prove that you are right, but it must be done in a way with concern, care, respect and hope it includes love.

And I didn't feel the love for me and the equality on the purpose. But i feel I was idiot in English and a little self pity not to write a new article. If he has a something to say, maybe it is better to express in person, and not commenting on other blogs to get my attention and doing sabotage. The more he write comments, the more I know the commenter and give my time for investigation, checking the IP address and my previous visitor gives me a huge idea on his ISP, his OS, screen resolution and lastly other information. He didn't came from any website or blogroll, and didn't came from any search engine. But purely typing daycody.com in a firefox browser using an old Operating System of Windows XP. He must not use watchtower.org as his link because he is not one... and I know his belief. My love even she is not in Philippines gives me a great suspect on who is..., and that information connects everything.  This is a good advices for those who are planning to follow or imitate "Mr. English". People who hide themselves might not be a straight person but have a gender problem. "Ill observe you, look in my eyes when I see you, because I am not just a blogger, I am also a business psychology in human behavior major. Just smile at me and be my friend, i might help you to reform and be good."

I think I don't need to proofread my own article, this is my blog and I will do anything I want to do. To all my readers, thank you very much for appreciation and I love those comments (not in my blog but) in person, thank you for those who correct me (not also in blog but) in person. And thank you to English for this blogpost hope "nanengneng ta ka lamet, ta parehas tan taga diya labat"

Author: daycody

www.daycody.com
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  1. Hindi madaling gumawa ng blog lalo na kung walang sapat na oras para gumawa, at sayang lang ang oras kung laging iproproofread yung article. Nobody’s perfect, and even some books have grammatical errors.

  2. Good article.

  3. why too many people talk bad things in my back about me? i don’t even hurt them or have any intention to. if they wont stop, they might be a history for me…

    “maong labat no agtakayo kabat ta okay labat angano manderal kayo, samantalang nanenengneng tan mitotongtong kayo ni ed siak a singa kayo tua”

    if they have moral problems and hiding the real themselves, they must not compare themselves to me. I dont collect friends, i dont need unrealistic ones. and don’t tell me that i have a moral problems, or saying that i have lot of pornographic videos in my laptop and hiding those, you might not know me. i am doing decisions and readjustment not to impress you, but to impress my own self!. and not getting worst like you.

  4. “Agay la tan Sir.. jeje walay ka kolkol mo amo ibagam labat ta gagayin ta ra”

    “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

  5. Si English amoy kalaban u sir..
    don’t worry kasama u si “TAGALOG”

  6. pre, ayos article mo. pano mo nagawa domain name mo? paturo naman pls.

    salamat “,)

  7. pre, nice article.. paano yung custom domain?

  8. kulaan mo natan ah.

  9. dito ako sa bahay. sa PSU ka na ba? paturo naman nyan.. thanks

  10. pre, paano ko tatangalin yung blogspot sa blog ko? http://www.etands.blogspot.com

    patulong.. pasyal ako sa inyo sa sabado kung di ka busy..


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