As much as some enjoy Spelling Bee contests, others are fed up with this infinite inconsitancy · photo by For Ever Soul

You are not alone… Confusion rules over English as a rule in terms of vocabulary, phrasal verbs and so on. We know that. Being an English as a Second Languagespeaker I am more than familiar - compellingly - with the phonetic unreliability as The Guardian describes the messed up pronunciation and spelling relation of English words. If you know how to pronounce a word in - say - Italian, you automatically can construct the word’s spelling for there are clear rules. This rule does apply for many languages, but English does not feature this consistency as a world language. Unfortunately this gives English speakers (both natives and ELS speakers) a really hard time. What do these 100 words have in common? Visible for you and you only, after the jump.

Blogging Outside of Your Community By Not Blogging in Your Native Tongue — A person writing in a language that is not their own, especially when those words are published for all to read, may bear a responsibility to their readers to disclose that the language in the blog is not their native language, thus, giving readers a chance to forgive them before they correct them. — Read More… | Digg Story

I do agree with the author, that blogging outside your community has an impact on the number of people following you inside the community. For philsblogging.com, it has had a postive effect, too — at least on my blog, there are about 50% international visitors.

Yes, people judge you in case “ya gramuh ain’t no good”

Syntax, Grammar, Errors: 3 words that go together way too well. — Having just added one of my newly discovered blogs, I wanted to show you how hilarious the “Oh - you - dumbass - you - messed - up - your - syntax - so - ridiculously” - blogs turn out to be. As I said on the blogroll page (the link archive that you surely love to browse), you have to visit that page every once in a while, since it has some crucially educational aspect*. I love the entries and more importantly the famous “Oh-I-can-do-better”-comments. Here’s the background story. The Indianapolis Star used the phrase “the couple are getting married…”, but in strict US English it obviously seems to be wrong (UK would work fine). Notice the comma-affair in the parenthesis (This kind of made me remind of the Beistrichtesting [how-to-put-commas-correctly-testing] we had to cope with last year in high school). Cheeky that is, I know.

samkay64 said… But the Indianapolis Star is not in England. It should use the singular for band, group, and family. (Does my second comma annoy you? I can’t help it; I love it!)

Read more syntax errors and grammar mistakes on grammar-syntax-errors.blogspot.com!

Another lovely blog: The “BLOG” of “UNNECESSARY” Quotation Marks — Speaking of mistakes in syntax, people just love screwing up. Here’s also a page that teaches how to use them correctly.

UPDATE: Being a blogger it can help you to polish your “professionalism” (I bascially couldn’t resist on that one, but quotation marks seem right to me) when obeying the rules of punctuation. Read this blog entry on copyblogger.com

* This very blog entry seems to have way more educational value that former <insert class name of the entire Oberstufe>. NOT.