Blogs With Bad English = Bad Blogs
I have seen someone bashing bloggers who blog with “bad” English, and to these people, BAD can be defined as an entry full of grammatical errors, typo errors or incomplete sentence. To them, it’s a rubbish because this kind of blog would not really attract readers. Now I would like to take this opportunity to motivate bloggers who think that their blogs suck because they don’t really have a powerful command of English.
DO NOT BE AFFECTED BY THOSE COMMENTS.
What makes your blog stand out is when you have the initiative to attempt. As much as people comment about your “bad” English, take your precious time to improvise, blogging is definitely a great way for you to polish your skill. Apart from that, I would suggest you to read more articles and look up on words you don’t really understand then apply them.
For me, what makes a blog interesting is the points that are presented by the blogger. We don’t have to pin point the grammatical errors UNLESS his blog serves as a blog that teaches English, that would be another case.
If someone comments too much on your grammatical errors, be polite and thank the person. But as for people who love to pick bones on bloggers with “bad” English, I hope you know, it’s not a BAD blog and if he knows how to deliver his points, people will still come back anyway.
Like I suggested, if you want to improve your English, you can:
- Read more articles.
- Learn to look up for words you really don’t understand, if possible, get a thesaurus dictionary so that you can be exposed to words that have similar meaning to the word you don’t understand, that way, you can apply more.
- Write! Write! And write!
Good luck bloggers!
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Thanks for this post. I’m one of the victim. i have comments that really hurts the feeling. However, my traffic never go down becoz of this comments. As long as the point cross over to the reader, I’m satisfied.
Thanks Cedric for this post, once again.
Your tip is OK, but don’t forget that best blogs are often not in English language.
Rather than understanding the meaning, some people are more concerned when someone writes bad ingrish. I agree with Joneh, it’s the meaning that matters.
Btw, I am not at all taken aback if someone commented how bad my English is. At least I know I should continue improving myself.
those grammar hounds (people who nitpick on other people’s grammar) are annoying…
i don’t mind some typo and grammar errors but if the english is so bad that i don’t understand what the blogger is trying to say, then of course i just leave.
Hi, I’m Shawn from The Millionaire Secrets.
Hope you still remember me.
I’ve favourite this post of your in Technorati.
Keep it going~!
Absolutely!
I guess this is probably why the traffic is quite low on my blog *sigh*
I have been studying the whole miserable day on that stewpid Introduction to Psychology (no, I’m not doing Psychology, just that its one subject I have to take - gosh!) and I decided to blog browse, and I ended up here. So, yo. Another blog, I see.
Anyway, I think this is an interest post. From what I observed, many bloggers - especially Chinese-educated ones (no, I’m not a racist) - tend to blog with a lot of grammatical errors.
There are, of course, some English-educated people who blog with a lot of abbreviations and “sms-language”, as what we call it.
In my opinion, here’s the problem: not everybody takes blogging seriously. The concept of ‘online diary’ is imprinted in their minds. Unless they see it from our perspective - that blogging is about expressing our views, changing perspectives, and earning - their manner of blogging won’t change.
And perhaps one more thing you could add is reading. I believe that reading helps - a lot. Be it fiction, fantasy, non-fiction, or even the papers, just read, for God’s sake! It will improve your English a lot.
I am having this serious problem.
But i am always welcome people to comment and correct my typind error.
Better improve myself quickly.
Even though having take an English course for almost 3 years, my grammatical still worst.
i agree. it’s the “dare-to-be-unique” thingie that catches my attention anyways.
I mean, I have ONE favorite blogging blog, and that’s john chow’s. any other blog that aims to imitate him I consider a copycat. BUT if a blog that is also about blogging is different in a way that the author presents his ideas uniquely (or he has a side to his personality that’s really catchy), i stick.
As long as the post is sensible, no matter if the person has good English or not, ’tis all good.
Well, as long as the blog contains nice content then I won’t mind if he/she writes bad English
yeah, this is very true.. we need to evaluate our english composition because we are on the bloggin industry part of web 2.0, that publishes information, facts, and figures, and the like, wherein a lot of people read them
hmm, this issue can be very confusing. as to say that people who know their language is vastly limited should then blog within their limits, y’know? some people I know.. they know their english isn’t so England, but they still wanna go ahead and blog like shakespeare, and thats when it shows how suckie you are right?
and honey.. sometimes you just cant help but to snigger..
“to those who love me.. thank you but please don’t over. I am not worthy of you all.”– anonymous
sorry, thats just funny.
I think its unreasonable to pick on people’s English when its clear that its not the blogger’s native language. I will however pick on people writing in “txt speak” - thats an abomination in a blog … its for your mobile phone people not for any other purpose.
In my opinion those persons are too boastful. Language is just a symbol to convey message. The idea is the most important in blogging and it shouldnt be too much scholarly written.
There is always an exception to a rule, somehow. Even that “what goes up must come down” rule is rather silly because ‘up’ means away from the earth… we definitely can launch something that will never come back so SOMETHING went up and didn’t come down.
Anyway - the exception to this article would be Jeremy Schoemaker, aka Shoemoney. Sometimes you think “that was brutal” when reading but you do get the message and the spelling doesn’t matter.
Anyway… just wanted to throw that out there :p
For me blogging is a self expression. As long as there is a substance it doesnt matter as long as it convey the right essence of the idea. It is also understandable for those people having english as their second language.