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Since I've been fiddling around with this blog for several weeks now and it's high time to get it off the ground... Hiya! My name is Nia, and I'm a proud grammar nerd. We are an endangered species, slowly dying out due to habitat loss and the increasing prevalence of text speak. So I've created myself a little safe haven here in the blogosphere.
Why should I give a damn, you ask? I have no idea. But if you enjoy watching an otherwise rational human being get foam-at-the-mouth furious over little things like spelling and punctuation, you've come to the right place. If you know the difference between there, they're, and their, you may consider this a second home. And if you're a writer looking to improve your craft, I'll occasionally take a deep breath, cool my jets, and post a piece of useful advice on the ins and outs of proper usage, good sentence construction, and other timely topics. Also, if you're a writer looking for the services of a PROFESSIONAL angry editor, check out those page links in the sidebar.
So pull up a chair, consider this a lifetime spew-alert (consume beverages while reading at your own risk,) and join the fun. I'll surely be posting my first rant shortly, as the Internet provides a daily comedy of errors ripe for the plucking.
3 comments:
I look forward to your spewage.
I think you just coined a new word, Kathy! Fancy.
Since I'm a fellow grammar/spelling Nazi, I sympathise totally! (And yes, sympathise is spelled correctly if you happen to live in Australia or the UK!) But being a transplanted American, I've learned to spell American AND British English, and have a tendency to switch back and forth between the two sometimes...
The inconsistencies of Aus/Brit English still confound me sometimes, though. Like why is it offence/defence, but still offensive/defensive? Makes absolutely no sense to me, but hey, THEIR version has supposedly been around a lot longer than ours...
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