agustus [2008-04-29 00:57:50 +0000 UTC]

This is absolutely brilliant I completely agree. In general writing I may make the occasional spelling mistake, but before submitting something that is supposed to be a piece of art, you would think people could at least run it through a spell check.

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synconi [2008-02-20 22:44:12 +0000 UTC]

Your lovely work has been featured in my journal! [link]
Thank you very much for sharing!

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synconi [2008-02-20 19:58:42 +0000 UTC]

This is brilliant!!! I am a bit of a grammar freak, and it annoys me to hell when people netspeak and don't use full stops...

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Athelwulf [2006-03-27 02:02:16 +0000 UTC]

Oh, and I forgot to mention: Your picture of the keyboard confuses me. Am I seeing things? It looks like the keyboard is inverted so that the Enter key is near the number pad, on the left end... *short-circuits*

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Athelwulf [2006-03-27 01:58:46 +0000 UTC]

It painfully annoys me when I see people who can't write properly. I swear, "u" and its friends are getting very tiring, as is the omitting (or worse, misusing) of the all-important apostrophe. And don't get me started on commonly confused words...

Congrats on making this rhyme and flow so well. The poem has the tone I think you meant to convey: that of I'll-go-over-it-one-more-time.

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NrgRush [2006-03-21 12:29:44 +0000 UTC]

That is bloody brilliant! Here Here! ....or was it hear hear....?
Lol. Anyway - got a giggle out of me!

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BlakPheonixNightmare [2006-03-20 07:01:59 +0000 UTC]

Lol, I don't have the attention span right now to read the poem (it is going on 2 am), but I have to agree very strongly with your description.


I have also given up reading poetry on DA. *sigh*

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Muzikinspyerz [2006-02-03 01:03:38 +0000 UTC]

Oh my goodness, this is a really wonderful poem. It's very clever; good work!

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RavennaKeston [2006-01-25 01:24:13 +0000 UTC]

This is great. I get very frustrated myself when it comes to online poetry and peoples' grammer itself. I used to use xanga since people use the blog groups there and when you find one you like all you have to do is go through their "Sites I Read" list. Unfortunately most of the people I used to read there picked up strange styles like omiting punctuation marks completely, making what would have been a good poem into one large and confusing run on sentence, or they change the order in which the subject appears in the sentence.
I love the rhyming sequence. That are meter are what I have the most trouble with...

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nikan2 [2005-03-07 03:00:09 +0000 UTC]

The rhythm and rhyming patterns are amazing, and at the same time so simple and easily digestable.
You really got your point across in a wonderful and full-filling way,
(FYI: I actually had to go look up how to spell "rhythm" before posting my comment! )

Great job, I'm really impressed with this one

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Vonawes [2004-06-23 02:44:54 +0000 UTC]

I love it. It gets people thinking and realizing. I'm a stickler and it drives me nuts when a person cannot get it right.

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PsydewaysTears [2004-04-15 17:31:43 +0000 UTC]

I'd like to see a follow up written by one of the culprits of this crime against language... just to see what in God's name they use for an excuse. It might actually be a little entertaining. You have a definate talent for molding rhyme into reason without getting off track or redundant. This is an expertly written piece and tackles a problem which I fear will only get worse as time and technology advances. My favorite stanza is the second because I just couldn't agree more. Other related pet peeves I have is the mutilation of the three words: they're, their, and there; and the confusion of the two words: then and than. Great poem, great message, great job!

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immortalphoenix [2004-03-15 03:25:54 +0000 UTC]

clever. very clever. i like it a lot. i can't say the lack of capitalization in some bugs me, because i rarely capitalize if i'm on the computer, but i am a grammar queen and a human dictionary (must have been that catholic grade school), and some of the errors on here are ridiculous. you don't need to be an english major to get some of these things right, it just takes common sense! sometimes, in the form of vignette for example, lack of conventional grammar works and is actually necessary, but you still need proper spelling! and when people in their poetry and prose use abbrevations like "u" and "l8r", that bugs me too. ok, i'm done ranting, lol.

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Calistostears [2004-03-09 21:17:59 +0000 UTC]

depends. not always are they grammer errors. and most poems don't rhyme at the ends. Then again I don't write poetry I write Prose. I like your writing and I think its good. But perhaps you should try and expand a bit more and try not always to rhyme your poems but great job.

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whispersnthedark [2004-03-09 03:18:09 +0000 UTC]

lol, i love it. and it is so true. ugh, and here's the worst:

dOnT tYpE liKe ThiS in a poem.... makes my eyes bleed.

Great Job!

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Sipowicz [2004-02-29 17:42:46 +0000 UTC]

the mistakes in prose are obscene - makes the poetry seem prefcet! hehe

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thepredator [2003-07-28 00:17:53 +0000 UTC]

Ha! If you think poetry is bad, try reading prose.

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shefb0yrd [2003-05-08 04:45:17 +0000 UTC]

OMG wtf due u hav agenst poems taht dont hav prorper spleling nd grammer? YOURa meany u NO taht?

I have read poems with slightly worse in them, and thankfully haven't stampeded over the author for such idiocy. I usually leave a snide remark of how "this would be so much better if you ran it through spellcheck", but try to refrain from going too far on some people. I mean, of course it's nice to give constructive criticsm and help along a "suffering" writer, but it's got to feel rather discouraging if you single out the entire poem as 'bad' because of their lack of English application. It may hinder their process to writing decent pieces if they can't express themselves how they best know how (improper as it may be). I did enjoy this, though. Don't let me say everything and leave out the important part.

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piuma [2003-04-20 18:57:20 +0000 UTC]

haha!
i
hate
grammar
with
the
burning
passion
of
a
million
lightbulbs

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uglybob [2003-04-19 02:30:04 +0000 UTC]

simply brilliant...nice job!

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astarath [2003-04-13 13:02:39 +0000 UTC]

This has needed saying for so damn long... hehehe, great work

The rhythm and style remind me of Ogden Nash... kinda... o_O

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demiurgos [2003-04-11 15:11:01 +0000 UTC]

Great poem, no doubt about it. It annoys the hell out of me as well, and english isn't even my mother tongue. I am trying to imagine how it would sound in danish (my mother tongue) if people made similar mistakes that often. Oh, they already do, and it makes them sound like 6-year olds.

interpretation:

GR8 p03m kn0w d0ut ab0ut 1t 1t an0ys t3h h3l 0ut 0ff m3 as w3l and 3ngl1sh 1snt 3v3n my mutha t0ng try3n t00 3mag1n h0w 1t w00d s0und 1n dan1sh my mutha t0ng 1v p3pl mad3 s1mm1l3r m1staks that 0ff3n 0 th31 allr3d1 d0 an 1t mak3s 3m s0und la1k s1x-yer 0lds

Advanced coding? Nope, it's how the L337 SP33K... I don't even think I got that one right. I'll never become L337 :sad:

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spoco2 [2003-04-10 06:25:23 +0000 UTC]

OK Instant for you... I so very much agree, I hate seeing the constant misuse of language... Some spelling mistakes are fine, I make plenty myself, but the really basic grammar issues so many people on the net seem to have makes me weep for education today.

Fine work indeed.

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TheRyanFord [2003-03-19 07:05:28 +0000 UTC]

Apparently I can only +fav this once. Damn rules. I share your distaste for these poor spelling errors. While I can see where foreign language speakers would have trouble with such words, the typical American or Brit should have absolutely no trouble, yet the constantly do. It sickens me.

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paulscha [2003-03-06 16:48:56 +0000 UTC]

Your wit and sense of rhyme do wonderful things together. This is fun and cathartic, for me - my mom was an English teacher, what can I do...

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nokturnal1 [2003-02-26 19:04:01 +0000 UTC]

This is a really cute poem, I'm glad you shared it with us. Now I have to go check all my poetry for spelling errors Great job

p.s. - people, if you read a poem, and see grammar and spelling errors, point it out to the author in a comment. i bet if they get enough comments about what they spelled wrong or worded incoherently, they'll start proof-reading their work

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bananafish [2003-02-24 23:17:23 +0000 UTC]

hehe! Very true, very true!

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psyko [2003-02-24 02:10:32 +0000 UTC]

Gotta love that one. Or shall I say that I've got to appreciate the effort that went into your work. You've made an excellent point, you've even got me using capital letters. Good point and good poem, you're on the right track.

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mandalagal [2003-02-23 22:44:14 +0000 UTC]

Good poem, and I like the subject matter, having majored in English myself. I'm not sure the English teachers out there now are capable of teaching this stuff properly, but there is still no excuse for this problem with the information sitting there on the computer.
Thanks for taking the trouble to write it. Hope it helps.

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screwball [2003-02-23 21:56:12 +0000 UTC]

I'm smiling atcha and wondering whether I should be blushing. Nice work

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jilliebel [2003-02-23 20:45:40 +0000 UTC]

I agree with you -SO- much, an error here or there is okay, but seriously! Its as if these people have no common sense at all. If they are from another country, and english is a second language that doesn't make me so mad, but you can tell a language error from a lack of intelligence error. (Most of them being lack of intelligence.)

And the your/you're thing REALLY pisses me off, so does "to" "too" and "two".


Well..then again, I'm majoring in English, so I guess its more of a pet peeve for me than most, right?

(than being comparitive, then being an expression of ellapsed time.)

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calthas [2003-02-23 20:31:50 +0000 UTC]

I so agree. I have gotten so so so so so so so so sick of people, yes I make an error and I am not perfect BUT at least mine can be read.

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roses [2003-02-23 20:15:32 +0000 UTC]

hehehehe
I love getting to vote twice when DA glitches.

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roses [2003-02-23 20:11:27 +0000 UTC]

hahahahahahahahahahaha

Very nice Amy... I only wish... honestly.
Though... I'm sure that I do the same sometimes... my Aunt would kill me for it too... I'd never live it down.

This was fun to read... good job.

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