Your and You’re, grammar and spelling in blogging.
Ok, so I’m posting this because over the course of my blog reading history I have been noticing that so many bloggers have terrible grammar!
When I first started heavily reading and participating on other people’s blogs I didn’t notice bad grammar so much, but now that I am an avid reader of a large amount of blogs I keep noticing it more and more! It’s not even the big complicated things that bother me, it’s the small, simple, and easy errors that get to me.
The one thing that I see most often as far as grammatical errors go is fellow bloggers using your instead of you’re. It annoys the hell out of me! I’ve seen famous bloggers like Shoemoney and Amit do it multiple times in their posts.
I remember a while back Shoemoney made a post about grammar entitled “Can you suck at grammar and have a successful blog” which linked to a post from Nick Sullivan’s blog pretty much stating the same thing. I guess more than just me are bugged by these famous blogger’s grammar. I’d also like you to know that I had already thought about making this post on my own before seeing the Shoemoney post!
I do like how Shoe took the initiative to make a post about it though, it really shows his personality. To be honest, if I was him I wouldn’t really care what others thought anyway!
- I’d be interested in hearing what others think about grammar in blogging. Do you think it is a big deal for bloggers to have good spelling and grammar, or is it not a big deal?
Oh and by the way, I’m not saying that I have perfect grammar. I’m sure someone can point out some mistakes in this very post as a matter of fact. It’s really just the elementary stuff that bothers me.
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