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July 31, 2005 I mixed metaphors again, even more offensive than that I misspelled one or two or a dozen words. Praise Be To Allah, they don’t have my home address. I included Allah to get some of the Muslim sympathy floating around out there this past week. God does a good job protecting me from everyone and everything including atheists. For some reason he gives the grammar police a pass. I guess God didn’t like the Passover card I sent him. These sophomoric, child like, [there I go again] dissenters don’t just come after me, they prowl the internet like rats cleaning out garbage cans. Miss a comma or misuse one and you’re toast in their eyes. To paraphrase the movie Treasures of Sierra Madre with Humphrey Bogart, [Article content, we don’t need no stinking article content.] It really doesn’t matter what the topic’s about, how it impacts current affairs around the world or here at home. World conditions are of no consequence to these people. Only perfection of the pen will satisfy their thirst for blood. At first, they irritated me I’ve always been embarrassed I was forced to work my way through both High school and College. Being dropped off at an orphanage at age 10, and kicked out at age 13, spelling and grammar were a long way down the list of important things to be considered. Life has been good to me, poor grammar and spelling hasn’t kept me from dealing with Men and Women of prominence. It didn’t keep me from working my way up from day labor to Vice President of a nationally recognized company. It didn’t keep me from becoming President of my own international import partnership. Do you think all those people knew, or maybe, just maybe it wasn’t all that important to them. What if they didn’t know the difference, what if they couldn’t spell? It isn’t easy to be a perfectionist at everything one does. I communicate with fellow writers, we all get the same e-mails attacking our use of the English language. What’s spoken in America isn’t English, because we’re a homorganic society the American language is comprised of many languages. It’s a misnomer calling it English. The grammar police never take into consideration cultural inflictions the reader are willing to overlook lest their own pronunciations may come into question. The Internet without a doubt is freedom at it’s best. To regulate it would kill the very thing is represents. The freedom to express opinions, freedom to be wrong, freedom to misspell words and use poor grammar. And yes even freedom to whine and complain about all those other freedoms. I welcome all those who challenge my words in the hope one day one will realize it’s content not composition that makes articles worth reading. Having said all this I recognize everyone has the right, no the obligation to speak and seek out anything they question on any subject they choose. Columnists give their opinions and must be willing to defend them to anyone who questions any portion of their work. If it’s worth saying its worth defending. ------------ About the author: Ken Hughes is prone to an occasional grammatical error and an occasional misspelled word. He claims to have learned to write by reading the Old Testament. Therefore, if you have problems with his writing talk to God. If his spelling offends you talk to Bill Gates. Ken believes its the message thats important, the rest is nonsense. Email: ken-hughes@comcast.net Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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