Years ago, when I worked in broadcasting, those of us who were announcers really dreaded having to read any ad copy that was written by one man who worked at the station. He sounded good on the air, but lord help you if you had to read any of his copy. His writing itself was not so bad, but the spelling was atrocious.

One day I was reading over his ad, that was to be done live, and it had the word wrestling in it. Catch is, the word was spelled RASTLINGH. That gives a good example of his spelling at its worst. We used to joke "what do you want, good announcin' or good spelling."

How does this apply at Active Rain? While most blogs are well written here, periodically there will be one that has numerous spelling or grammatical errors. How lenient are you in your mind when you read those? Do you try to be nice and focus on the content or do the numerous mistakes shoot down the credibility of the author to such a degree that you do not want to rastle with the words.  Put succinctly: Can you have good bloggin' with really bad spelling or grammar or is the author's public persona better represented by exiting the field of blogging?

If there are spelling errors in this blog, please ignore them. I was tired of rastlingh with it!

Steven L. Smith

Bellingham WA Home Inspections