Spel Chekc is Gud
If you want people to believe you are an "expert", maybe do not also describe yourself as an "aficado" and a "connesueir" in the same paragraph in your self-promoting social media bio.
If you are a woman posing as a sex expert, this goes double, because half the people who read the bio won't respect you even if your spelling and grammar are impeccable.
Women attempting to pose as experts have to use all kinds of big words that aren't easily understood.
18th January 2010 at 12:07 am | permalink |True enough. Which is why those who simply skip the proofreading really bug the fuck out of me.
18th January 2010 at 12:52 pm | permalink |Perhaps we can just see the knowledge and will to use a spell-checker as a readily handy intelligence test… I don't speak of the occasional typo, here, which (almost) everyone makes, but the sort of thing we find on the 'net that says so much about who the "writer" is, and what he or she is about.
10th March 2010 at 2:00 am | permalink |By the way, I've been inspired by coming to your site.
There needs to be a corresponding blog coming at many of the same issues, and written by someone of the other gender… a site/blog with "dick" in its name, and probably "asshole", too.
10th March 2010 at 2:05 am | permalink |@Ifthisbeterror: I'm not sure "dick" and "asshole" really have an equivalent impact nowadays. I fear "cock" or "motherfucker" might be your only options.
10th March 2010 at 11:34 pm | permalink |Must be a cultural thing. In Aus, cock would be regarded as softer than dick, I think. Pretty sure motherfucker is still more offensive than 'asshole'.
11th March 2010 at 5:22 pm | permalink |