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The Language of Blogs
I read over a lot of blogs each week, casually surfing one or
two of the blog exchanges I belong.
I realized yesterday that I seldom read the whole entry unless
it's very short. Many are quite uncomfortable to read, some
downright excruciating, in terms of their grammatical skills,
spelling, and style. Because it is such an immediate and
off-the-cuff personal expression, do the standard language rules
apply?
The conversational nature of a blog leads naturally to an
informal, casual approach that can be refreshing and innovative,
indirectly echoing some of the great writers of the past who used
dialect and local expressions to vitalize their work.
It is unfortunate that so many who write don't understand
basic language rules so cannot effectively break them. When it
takes major time and effort to understand what on earth the
writer is trying to say, rather than being able to appreciate the
content and point of view being expressed, it becomes merely an
exercise in frustration.
The beauty, and ultimate value of blogging, is that
communication is direct, individual, and uncensored. No editor
with an eye on public opinion or potential legal consequences is
cutting out whole paragraphs in fear they will offend. There is
no filter applied by conservative management or the need for
committee consensus prior to publication.
However, those of us who publish our thoughts and opinions to
the world do have one big responsibility: to our readers. We can,
happily, say anything we want but need to clearly communicate our
point of view.
Anything less demeans the value of this wonderful new medium
and leads to millions of electronic pages that fail to unite us
in community, as is our goal, but merely consumes virtual space
like the incoherent ramblings of a lonely psychotic.
Virginia Bola is a licensed clinical psychologist with deep
interests in Social Psychology and politics. She has performed
therapeutic services for more than 20 years and has studied the
effects of cultural forces and employment on the individual. The
author of an interactive workbook, The Wolf at the Door: An
Unemployment Survival Manual, and a monthly ezine, The Worker's
Edge, she can be reached at http://drvirginiabola.blogspot.com
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