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Yawn! Okay so you are blogging on grammatical errors contained in various articles published in the Philippines. I can see what it is you are trying to accomplish, but after going through a few of your posts, I feel the need to suddenly turn off my PC. Consider adopting a more constructive, rather than, a condescending tone the next time you write. Doing so will make the casual reader more receptive to your ideas.

It occurred to me to write an acrimonious article, but I recently interacted with a bunch of happy pupils and I am particularly happy myself. Thanks for expressing your emotional comment. Can you really see what I am trying to accomplish?



The tech support forum called Annoyances.org was created, I'd like to believe, because of annoying technical errors on Windows. This blog was motivated, initially, by my annoyance with grammatical errors on published articles. I read a lot and I don't consciously look for grammatical errors, unless it's for the purpose of collecting materials for this blog. I do encounter them, however, and it is quite a distraction because my reading gets sidetracked by pronoun-antecedent mix-ups, shifting verb tenses, long and meaningless fragments, etc. It does not help to see the editorial box. You may not be aware of it, but I actually emailed some of the editors and writers concerned here. I continued seeing errors, however, so I thought maybe I should throw in a fair amount of sarcasm and "condescending tone". So you get the general tone of the first few articles.

Now regarding tone and reader's receptiveness. There have been writers who write with sarcasm as part of their style, and their readers still receive them well. Kathleen R. Lawrence and Jessica Zafra are two examples. As for this blog, I will write articles that are sarcastic, serious, light, and funny. Call it variety. But I will provide answers. If someone asks me a question and I can answer it right away, I don't tell them to go and Google it. I tell them the answer right then and there.

Whatever the tone, as long as I know users who are looking for answers are finding it on this blog, I am cool with that. Here are some examples:

 Somebody searched for "examples of two-word adjectives" on Google
and found this blog.

People searching on Google for "awhile vs a while", "fractions in subject-verb agreement"
and "concord pronoun/antecedent" found my blog.

It's interesting how you reacted after reading a few (?) of the articles here. I myself did not feel the need to delete your comment.

I felt the need, however, to edit your comment and replace contained with found and omit the extra comma after rather than.

For lack of a category, I am filing this post under Moods, although I am talking about a different mood.