OK – I’m not sure if this is the real term for what people are calling it, but it shits me. And it shits my Fiance, too.

This is the thing that it seems bogans are using to justify their inability to spell or display correct grammar. In one of my first posts, I talked about how I blame this kind of crap for the downfall of society. If you can’t write, you can’t speak. And that turns you into an inbred bogan.

This is what the above paragraph would look like if written by one of these inbreds:

this is the thing that it seems bogans are using to justify their inability to spell or display correct grammer. in one of my first posts i talked about how i blame this kind of crap for the downfall of society. if you can’t write you can’t speak. and that turns you into an inbred bogan.

Do you want to know the sad thing? That pathetic display of English is a GOOD example. Some blogs don’t bother with full stops, commas or apostrophes either. That would turn the above paragraph into nothing more than a jumble of words.

What it screams to me is: I’m lazy. I’m uneducated. I really couldn’t be f**ked taking pride in myself or my work.

The PROBLEM is that if people keep doing this crap, then young people will start to get used to it (as if they aren’t already), and before you know it, they start writing like that all the time. Pretty soon, those young people grow into adults, but they don’t change, because “they’ve always done it that way”, and then THEIR kids grow up not knowing any better. Before you know it, we all write and speak like we grew up in Bumfuck, Eygpt (sorry Tater).

If you can’t even manage to spell “I” correctly, how f**king lazy are you? When I come across a website or blog with text that bad, I close it immediately. I refuse to waste MY time working with a company or individual who can’t even be arsed to show me that they are professional and/or take pride in themselves.

So grow the F up Australia. Start learning to spell. Learn how to use commas – and more importantly, apostrophes, correctly. Know the difference between “your and you’re”, between “there, their and they’re” and definately between “then and than”. Here’s a quick lesson for some of you:

If one thing is big and another is small, you would say that one is bigger THAN the other. If you went to the movies and the shops on the weekend, you would say you went shopping THEN to the movies. GET IT RIGHT! It really isn’t that hard.