Begin the beguine...

[mapsedge]

No clue. That was my response when my wife asked me why I'd signed up for LiveJournal. I'm not a joiner, as a rule, and, with a few notable exceptions, hate reading journals. I came across one yesterday, just randomly browsing, written by a (presumably) high-school age female. Jeezus H. Kee-r-I-st, don't we teach our kids how to write anymore? By fourth grade I could spell, write in complete sentences, and knew the proper use of a semi-colon for God's sake, but this young woman could barely construct a coherent thought let alone be bothered with punctuation. I mean, I'm all for "stream of consciousness" and all that happy horse shit, but I've never had my consciousness fucked up so badly that the stream looked more like the waste outlet for a hair-treatment chemicals plant than an actual flow of ideas.

e e cummings got away with it, darlin'. You just sound like a moron.

Maybe that's what this journal will be good for. A place to pile on the rants that my wife doesn't want to listen to anymore, which, in spite of how it sounds, is not in and of itself, in fact, a rant. Merely an observation.

Comments

Unforgiving...

[billthetailor.livejournal.com]

Hiya Denise,

It's been a pleasant realization that I haven't seen anyone here whose presence surprises me, with the possible exception of purpledumbass, though as I think about it it makes a certain sort of sense. D. Reardon would surprise me, for reasons I'm sure you would share.

I do tend to be dreadfully critical of folks who can't seem to be bothered to learn to communicate, in written form or otherwise. We work with our daughter, Kathryn, on saying "yes", "no", and on keeping eye (or at the very least, face) contact when speaking, though at her age (four) it's more about making herself understandable to me, since I don't hear very well. Hopefully someday that will fold into good communication skills. She's already got my sense of humor and timing.

Re: Unforgiving...

[rougewench.livejournal.com]

She's already got my sense of humor and timing.

You are certainly going to have an adventure raising her...


D.

Re: Unforgiving...

[purpledumbass.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can see that it might be a little bit surprising to see my prescence here... but it was something I kinda stumbled on too...

Welcome to LJ, Bud. I can't recall if I've gotten the chance to chat with you in the past year or so...

As to your original rant about writings and such. I share a lot of the same feelings about obnoxious spelling and punctuation. An odd misspelling here or there is forgivable, but just arbitrary punctuation "where it looks pretty" is a major annoyance.