I found the excerpt below during my recent online identity search. I don’t know the person who wrote it, but I believe she may be writing for a college course. Don’t confuse these words (or spelling or grammar) for my own. This is by a person called meggiman, a name suspiciously close to my nickname for my sister. (She assures me it is not her):
http://www.noisiestpassenger.com/
this is the link i am refereing to when i say i dont like blogs. i can see why some people would but for me it is something that is more of a hobbie for a person to have, and if its not something you enjoy doing then it really gets you no where. i believe society if anything these days is too dependant on the internet and technology, i mean, not that i believe that Y2K was, or is ever going to actually happen, but say it did. we would lose so much information that was thought to be backed up in blogs and or other hardware provided on and througout computers. all i got from reading “Amandas MsAdventures” was that her and her girlfriend had a nice day in ney york taking pictures of ablsolutly nothing significant to me and talked about things they encountered durring their life and friendship together. sure its a great way to express yoru personal feelings or even to get out news on a presant happening. However, who is to say that any of the things you see posted on blogs is based on facts. i could go make up a name for myself and become Harry the news reporter from Austria, and tell you that the news doesnt want you to know about this new food i found in my country cause it causes cancer, and your telling me that people are going to believe it like its true when they have know idea where i got that and weather or not its hearsay or a prooven fact.
I do believe meggiman is on to me. Or not.
Spelling! And it’s not just the kids. Found “callisthenics” in a recent novel (by a relatively respectable writer). Current popular fiction seems to be less and less carefully edited. My favourite (Canadian spelling) strange word is “firerdustinwasher” which came from one of my students. If you don’t get it, it’s fire extinguisher.
I saw “jene” today for “genie.” That’s got nothing on “firedustinwasher,” though!
I THINK her point was that blogs are pointless (?), but if she really needs an example, she need not look further than her own writing. Homegirl needs to get a life… and a dictionary.