Comments on: MG Siegler Destroys the English Language – Episode 3

By: thatguy

thatguy — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:14:29 +0000

Oh really? I've never been to Ohio, so what *do* they speak there? http://www.crunchbase.com/person/mg-siegler ;)

By: Zacqary Adam Green

Zacqary Adam Green — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:53:18 +0000

You're no fun.

By: Marahmarie

Marahmarie — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:34:24 +0000

Maybe you should research people before you write about them. English is not his first language.

Considering that, maybe you ought to step off his ass (yeah, I know, I left out the word “of”, how could I?).

By: ivanotter

ivanotter — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:24:27 +0000

Ok, suddenly I like you a lot more. *gives you Kudos*.

By: ivanotter

ivanotter — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:24:27 +0000

Ok, suddenly I like you a lot more. *gives you Kudos*.

By: Zacqary Adam Green

Zacqary Adam Green — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:49:16 +0000

I know this is the Internet, but please don't call people retards. It's much better to educate the misinformed than to insult them.

By: Nick Berg

Nick Berg — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:45:01 +0000

Your premise is flawed. Once you learn to write proper English, you don't have to go back and correct your writing. Or are you the sort of retard who needs to consult a dictionary for the proper use of “there”, “their”, and “they're” every single freaking time instead of just learning it once? But if you're an unintelligent dork who struggles at the English language, then perhaps a career in journalism isn't for you. Or it signals that you need an editor to clean up the crap you spew out. That's why they exist: to turn unreadable garbage that you excrete into sensible English. Not making an effort makes you a cheap, lazy, and illiterate bastard.

By: Zacqary Adam Green

Zacqary Adam Green — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:39:43 +0000

Personally, I strike a balance and then actually click “Edit” if I spot an error after the fact.

By: Angus Logan

Angus Logan — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:30:35 +0000

Plankhead, I work with a guy like you. It takes him 8 hours to get a blog post out the door.

What would you trade off, time to market or perfect grammar?

Different strokes for different folks.

By: Zacqary Adam Green

Zacqary Adam Green — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:44:09 +0000

That particular article had just one typo. He spelled it correctly at the beginning of the article, so I'm sure it was a case of simply not looking hard enough for the red wavy lines (unless he writes his articles in Internet Explorer, which I believe still lacks the red wavy lines, and that seems highly unlikely). I brought it to his attention in the comments, so hopefully that will be enough for him to actually edit the article.

But while typos can usually be recognized by a reader and interpreted as the intended word, MG, on the other hand, not only makes punctuation errors which seriously hamper the readability of his articles, but are also really funny to complain about. If I ever feel like another TechCruch writer screws up in a way that I can point out entertainingly enough, believe me, I shall do so.