Dear friends,
I wanted to share with you a couple of blog housekeeping news.
First, the “kinda-but-I-am-not-so-sure-bad” news: after both of the people whom I had asked to help me as pre-moderators bailed out on me (the first one due to disagreements in the format of the blog, the second due to personal issues) I have decided that when the new blog goes live I will do all the moderation myself.
Which is both bad and good, really. Bad: it will take more of my time I could have spend doing other things. Good: at least I would bail out on myself. Also, I have to tell you that with time I have lost my inhibition about tossing out “bad” comments and now I do this as soon as I see anything discourteous, the use of CAPS, or any other comment I think deserves to be trashed. And this helped a great deal. This morning when I woke up there were 66 comments awaiting in the moderation queue and all them them perfectly good. Apparently the trolls are gradually giving up (except this one crazy guy who hates both the English and the Indians who regularly tries to post a comment advocating the genocide of both; for weeks I have been tossing his crap into /dev/null, but he keeps trying). So since I will do the moderation myself, I will never bad a person, but I will shoot “bad” comments on sight with no remorse.
I have had another friend agreeing to pre-moderate for me, and I could ask another two, but why go down that road? There are advantages to doing that myself and, even more importantly, there are much better ways to save time.
And this is the good news.
This morning I received an email from a reader who very kindly sent me a version of my latest SITREP corrected from all the numerous typos it had.
You can down load this corrected version by clicking here
This is when an idea hit me. But first, let me explain my past dilemma.
God knows I am a terrible writer. Not only is English not my first, second or even third language, but I always write under huge time pressure and, to make things worse, I never see my own typos. Lastly, I simply never have the time to re-read myself and try to clean-up my writings. In the past I have had readers posting comments with corrections, sending me emails with lists of mistakes to correct and even sending me completely proof-read texts. The problem is that correcting is also time consuming. As for simply replacing my text with another one is very tricky if not outright dangerous. First, there is the possibility of a well-intentioned corrector incorrectly understanding my (poorly-written) text inadvertently making a mistake. Second, there is the non-trivial risk of a not well-intentioned corrector deliberately mis-correcting what I wrote and then, once it is posted, crucifying me for saying something I never did. With the recent smear-campaign against me where I was accused of saying things I never said I became very paranoid on that account. As for re-reading the proofread text sent to me before posting it, that again takes too much time.
But then, this morning, “H” sent me my corrected SITREP as an attached document in ODT format. All I had to do was to save it to Google Drive, and post the link (which I did above). That solves ALL my problems because I can post a proofread text in just a few clicks and I don’t have to re-read anything since the original document, with typos and all, is still posted. Thus, it is absolutely clear that the corrected document has been edited by a friend but not by me and if a malevolent “corrector” twists something that I wrote and I get challenged on that, I can easily point to the original text as the only “original” one. Finally, to for those of you who want to re-posts my stuff elsewhere, do have access to a well-formatted clean ODT text is also much better than to have to cut-n-paste my original text, no?
So here is my idea if you guys agree.
If somebody does the same thing “H” did today and sends me a corrected text as an attached ODT file I will immediately update the original post with a note at the bottom pointing to a clean, proofread, text. Does that sound useful to you? Please let me know. I like the idea a lot, but I want to make sure that I did not miss something and that most of you like it too.
As for me, the next time I write something under huge time pressure (like yesterday’s SITREP), I will add a note at the bottom saying “text needs proofreading” and, hopefully, somebody will pick that up, send me a corrected text to which I will then post a link.
Watcha think?
Please let me know.
Kind regards,
The Saker
Better to train your brain to see your own mistakes.
“I never see my own typos.”
I never see mine either, but usually spot those of others. Maybe it’s some kind of thing with the “brain wiring”.
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BTW responds:
Saker, for god’s sake don’t get paranoid about typos and don’t belittle your writing abilities. You write better than 99.9% of native English speakers. Your writing is pleasing, the flow both esthetic and logical, the vocabulary powerful, subtle, and precise, etc. etc. In short, don’t go around wasting precious time.
I hereby propose the motion to mercilessly shoot down Saker’s attempted war on typos and propose that we live with things as they are because we value substance over form.
I agree. The typos are only egregious to self-appointed internet hall monitors and unemployed English lit PHD’s……
I agree also with these 2 comments. Don’t waste your time. I use my brain to correct any typos as I read. I’m sure most logical people are capable of this. Thank you for your time and effort, your work is fantastic.
What the heck does egregious mean? Jesus, this is my first language…
From my perspective it is time consuming for any reader to go through “reader corrected text” better if someone feels the urge to point out a typo a quick reference to the typo in question in the comments section suffices I imagine most readers are able to navigate their way through typing errors but bravo to the writer who made the effort to cleanse your text of typing errors It does indicate a dedication worthy of respect
I think this is a good idea.
For newcomers to this site, the typo’s hurt your credibility. This seems to be a sensible, efficient solution.
I’m not that interested in a perfectly proofread post. the information you post is just about impossible to get elsewhere and I can read through the typo’s.
Saker
This blog is constant evolution. New rules that make your life better are okay.
Ideal form would be a trustworthy editor for you to pre-submit and get everything cleaned up fast.
That may come. Look at the many language versions that now exist.
Evolution of the Vineyard will continue.
Rule One: KISS
Rule Two: Do it
Rule Three: Stay transparent
We’re not here because you are perfect.
Always follow your instincts. May not be a straight road, but its the “good” road.
It’s your blog, so what you do is up to you. I can live with the typos and mentally correct them as I read what you have written. The content is far more important and it is the content that keeps me coming back to your blog on a regular basis.
Don’t worry about the little stuff.
I rarely post anything on the internet. The Saker, however, is to be commended in every way. His blog is outstanding, informative, and well written. I fully agree with BTW’s motion.
I agree with The Saker’s policy regarding correction of typos in his original postings. It’s true that there are quite a lot of typos, but almost always they don’t seriously interfere with understanding what The Saker is saying. The important thing is clarity, not syntactical correctness, and almost always The Saker’s writing is sufficiently clear.
FWIW I have republished about a dozen of The Saker’s articles (going back to February of this year), all with typos corrected, and these may be seen among the links on the left side of http://www.serendipity.li. Links to that page are, of course, welcome.
…note at the TOP saying “text needs proofreading”.
DemocracyNow! uses “Rush Transcript” when they post something perhaps in need of correction.
Saker,
I concur with anon/BTW at 15:25. The important thing in your writing is the information and the reasoning. Sure there are typos, and they occasionally cause this reader to pause and think a little, but never is the meaning unclear. They are like flaws in a work of art; evidence of the artist’s hand.
But if you insist on making corrections available, consider doing this. Make it mandatory that any corrected form include the original text in strikethrough, followed by the correction. That way nothing is lost, and the changes are obvious.
mikael
I have been home, or more precisly, homeland, and have departed from there, in a depresive state, simply because, nobody cares any more, nobody is willing to take the stand, and “fight” for it, for our people sake and suvival.
Everybody is taking, ohyea, talk and talk and talk.
But few if non is eager to rise the level to a national stage, but it ends up with nothingness.
Not only is the cenusre rocksolid, the lies rocksolid, the histrical forgerys, rock solid, infact, this isnt the wurst part of it, its the covardness that in the end, will destroy us, as humans and people.
We trun our heads, poke fingers into our ears, and screams LALALA as hig as people are able, and thats how it is to day.
So a few “coments”, on whom is their right mind acctaully belived the Scots would fight for their rights, in a reality packed to the brim with PCs, and inflamaruty tethoric aganist people like us, and so on.
I havent read this mutch bollocs for decades, and the wining afterward is just pathetic, and shows us one thing, we are indeed scuewed.
The Scots will bleed and the rape of your land will continue, and dont expect that some of us is nor will give you any sympathy, you dont deserv it at all.
You bowed for your own covardness and dissbelife in your and your comunetys/peoples ability to govern the land by your self, this is how deep the hammerings of the MSM have made the reality the Scots/brits belive in.
Do you have any trust or faith on your own people.
huh
Instead, you belive the Brits, and their pack of insane liers and war criminals, and whom on topp of it is ruining thei own land.
And stil, you fall for the bollocs they serve, and why then sould I have any sypathy, on covards.
I have fighted for my entire life, won and lost specacuyalry, been so broke I had to steel food, but not once have i compromissed on the path.
YOU GOTT what your deserved, and now the future you covardly threw away.
The Novoerussiand, will go down the raod with the Scots, into been ripped apart by the ruling oligarcs and political elite.
I will not try to speculate, and names isnt my stong side, but paths/porcesses are, and the resistance will be ripped apart from within.
YOU lost it the day you stopped the figth, I new this will be lost to, not that I am pessimistic, Im not, but reality isnt the same as wishfull dreamings.
If there was a will, there would have been a way.
But as my own rude awakening to the massive wall of realitys and peresptions impose on people for decades, I understands this, but I will not axept it.
May the lord continue to enlighten your path, and to gain wisdom.
peace
i fully agree to what BTW wrote. Don’t worry too much about a small typo here and there. I think they are a natural result of the blog format itself and they don’t detract of the most important, which is the contents.
CRG
No one can proof-read his own writing. That’s why proof-readers can make a living.
It is noticeable in recently published books that typos abound, most likely because the publisher has saved money by asking the author to correct his own work.
If it concerns you enough,give it a trial.Not much to go wrong then.I say Aye Laddie.
XbNB
Your content is clear and most importantly can’t be found anywhere else. Write more and worry about typos less.
Keep up the great work!
The typos don’t bother me. I’d rather have you spend the time on new stuff than correcting spelling.
Saker:
thee is absolutely nothing rong with your posts. i do knot cee wy you are so koncernd. we can reed your stuf without any problms. jist keep posting?
I second BTW motion to keep things as they are.
You write from emotions best not trifled with.
PLM
Well you can post corrected articles as links but I know I will not bother to read them. I know personally I have a very hard time putting what I think onto paper in written form so others can understand it. I think in concepts and not storyboards. It also allows me to see things very differently than what others see them as. I dont need to go point by point to get to the end, I only need to look at the picture and come to a conclusion and hence it is very hard to pin that down to writing. It comes in handy for analysis but not very good for something like teaching.
You might have something similar. Now most others will not know how to conceptualize what you wrote down. But maybe it will be easier to read even if not much easier to understand. Although you do a far better job of conveying the ideas you write. Even if you think you dont, I never found anything that made me wonder what you said/wrote although I do wonder what you meant because we have some disagreements on what an events means.
Got to mention, the Empire has pulled out all the stops in how the US created the IS but it got out of hand is an entirely different beast that has yurned on its master.. Kinda like why Al Ciada’s responsible for 911, Bosnia, Chechnya and anywhere else the US needed storm troopers.. After all this time, they still think people are stupid enough to buy that IS is not directly controlled by Al Ciada.
Things we forgot, like the large number of puts on airliners made form a CIA office.. Many ongoing criminal investigations that went down with WTC7.. Heck it was a crime to rid evidence on a massive scale off crimes as well as financial transactions. We have no idea what transactions were done on that day. Perfect day to get rid of anything damaging and move all the loot from one place to another without any traces..
Just sick and tired of this charade! And its everywhere on every blog and newspaper. The moderate rebels in Syria are the brotherhood! They were funded by Qatar before Qatar dumped them and everything started with that. Now to hear Saudi Arabia and the US are going to support them when they have been killing them in Gaza and Egypt.. It does take more than a leap of faith to believe they will ever take orders from those killing them all over the world. While those the US and coalition are supposedly bombing are the ones who are being supported.
I will be amazed if they can get this off the ground because what the MSM is telling us is that White is Black and Black is White and we even know other wise. Its the ultimate the Emperor has no cloths. These people think we are that STUPID!
I just looked at my Snickers bar.. I am not sure I should eat it. I might get into trouble..
Country of Origin: Russia..
WTF?
If this is made in one of Poroshenko’s factories I might need to get an intestinal cleanup a lot of mouthwash and maybe an enema.
Unless a typo is vital to your meaning, which usually an astute reader catches and lets you know anyway in a comment, I wouldn’t worry about it. You write clearly and well and we ALL appreciate your hard work. None of us could do what you do or at least we couldn’t do it as well.
No one can proofread their own work–your eyes will see what your brain *knows* is the correct word. That’s why there’s editors and proofreaders.
Fear not dear Saker!
As many other contributors have already mentioned, the “problem” and/or challenges you are facing is nothing to be really concerned with. The fact and simple truth is that you compose your thoughts as opposed to thinking of composing. You’re style flows from the way our natural thought processes work and not the way our natural thinking processes are, and have been, manipulated. Most “natural” writers compose their thoughts in a much different way that the way the language of Babylon allows to be published.
You are certainly not much different that any independent thinker that still has any shred of critical thinking skills. What is lost by some trapped within the box is that they have no idea what can be found outside the box. This makes them confused but keeps them under control by the deceivers and linguistic manipulators.
Let’s face it, even when the ptb’s politico minions speak any form of truth about their actual agenda, their own “constituents” refuse to acknowledge those truths as self evident and go immediately into damage control mode.
In other words, you are a part of a unique group that can see what many cannot. That in itself does not fit into the language of Babylon that has consumed the globe. It is not simply by chance that the language of Babylon cannot be translated and why so many things get lost in translation. Anyone that lives in a multilingual society realizes this even if they cannot accept this fact. While we can easily learn to understand each other when necessary, the status quo discourages it for the sake of forced assimilation and/or subversive harmonization. As an example, we can just look at Harper. Even if one is not bilingual all one needs to do is simply listen in real time to the translations of the “speeches” to hear that they are different. Basically, he says one thing in English and another in French. That is the way the divide and conquer by way of deception works and why it works so well. This keeps everyone on the same page but in different chapters.
To make a long “story” a bit shorter, welcome to the club that has realized that wasting time on simple things and remaining stuck in the mud is worth far less that investing time and efforts moving forward. Or something like that, lol… :)
DumpHarper!
Wouldn’t change a thing, Saker. Your writing is beautiful, concise, logical, witty, and very very readable. Love it just the way it is, typos and all. Don’t sweat the small stuff!
And please don’t let insignificant typos rob precious time from your personal and home life. Not worth it.
I did not know if you have seen this already. Kind of funny; Ukrainian politician is thrown into a trash container.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEba3bqykq8
What you propose with the submitted corrections and maintaining the original post sounds fair and should negate others maligning your good name sir Saker.
Also, Russian bumper stickers… good quality(bought one myself)
http://www.cafepress.com/757redreign
You are doing a great job thanks
Dear Falcon,
This article (see: http://en.ria.ru/world/20100218/157921859.html ) published back in 2010 speaks of Russia assisting Mexico with the “war on drugs” and the U.S. government had no objections to Mexico partnering with the Russian Federation.
I have not read or heard anything more about this, have you?
Almost a ‘pro Kiev’ report about the ‘Peace March on RT..
It seems ther is a majority of Ukies.Even EU and NATO flags..how can theses people be so stupid?Are they paid for?
http://rt.com/news/189472-moscow-opposition-march-ukraine/
Dear The Saker,
Whatever is best for you. Sorry to hear you don’t have moderators.
Your English is very good and I’m not bothered by the typos.
Rgds,
Veritas
mr Saker, your blog is outstanding, informative, and well written.
I would not like to be among the anonymous (old Swede)
Your analyses are clear, logical and interesting. Your writing flows like the spoken word, a quality that the best writers strive for — achieving it, often, only through endless re-writing. Remember you’re not writing for the New York Times, and if you were we wouldn’t read it.
“Not only is English not my first, second or even third language…”
good grief my good man, you have too many talented talons or what?
this is a nice comments page, people commenting on the comments of others on the comments of the editor – luffley –
(an I does lyke the tiepos btw, ceep ’em))
True, there’s the occasional typo in your blog posts – but does it matter? I don’t think it does. What matters is content.
I’d not click on links to clunky office docs requiring clunky office software anyway.
I’m not a native speaker of English either, but after having read about 100 of your blog posts I’ve seen one and only one mistake you keep making (so it’s a habit, not a typo), which is incorrect spelling of the past particle of the verb “to lead”. The past participle is “led” and you keep writing “lead”, as in “the forces of Light, lead by the USA in white shining armor and on the other, the forces of Darkness, lead by Russia crawling out of the Asian steppes”.
Lastly, as I see you mention Linux in your blog and so might have an interest in computing, there are tools for collaborative editing of plain text files (like source code) such as diff/patch, but also in graphical format (e.g. WinMerge), and that works very well but would require you and your collaborators to adopt some collaboration discipline (certainly feasible). Probably overblown for a blog, but if you’re interested I could elaborate on that.
“God knows I am a terrible writer.”
In your forth language!!!! Are you for real? I cannot write as well as you in my first language. Agree with Alien Tech’s post, he describes my situation perfectly. Thanks for a great blog, been reading for 12-18 months, don’t get hung up on typo’s
Dear Saker,
please don’t be concerned with some typos on your posts…they don’t bother me at all (basically, I did’t notice them :)…because my own level of English :)…)…and I can say for myself, that I will not bother to read the corrected articles…
…your posts are great how they are…it is not about form but about content…
…and I thank you for their content…
…tunned friend from Slovakia…
I like your style of writing, perhaps because my English is far behind yours, but your little typos or small omissions do not disturb the flow at all. Besides your articles seem to have some more human touch, something more personal in them, I like it.
But what is most important here is that if you attach corrected articles of yours without you checking them, there will definitely be mistakes and misinterpretations, intended or unintended, does not matter, and many people will only read the corrected versions, which obviously is not good for them at all. So my opinion is just keep doing what you do, you are doing great.
Elizabeth
I think you’re a good writer. Pavel at 16:26 nailed it about proofreading.
And Basho at 16:44 gave a nice demo of how far misspelled you can be and still be understood.
However, English is my first language, and I assume it must be much harder for people who would already be struggling just to read perfect syntax.
Not to put work on anyone, but you might think about a wiki. People could apply to become editors, and between the team get it done. The URL would stay the same. If it matters to you.
We live in an age where the first proof gets published now – and I’m a commercial writer. Back in the day we wrote perfect sentences at the typewriter. I would never dream of letting anyone see my writing until at least my first rewrite. Now, we type and run.
It’s the price we pay for having more information at our fingertips than any humans have ever had before – I pay the price willingly, for the revolutionary change for good this may bring.
I myself do not have a problem with any miswording or typos in your writings. When reading a mistake I have always put it down to english not being your first language and so the mistake never bothers me, in fact I like the accent. I am more interested in what you have to say, the nuances and points made being very understandable. If it bothers you go ahead and have a proof reader go over your stuff but be careful that the true meaning and feelings of what you want to say is retained. Cheers!
…But as my own rude awakening to the massive wall of realitys and peresptions (perspiring’s: editors correction)impose on people for decades, I understands this, but I will not axept it.. .
this is the winning comment so far – from the commentators commenting on others comments of the comments of the editor -you are Michael, Mr VofhtheS or my names not. .
BTW comment works for me.
And worse still, if you announce that you will be attaching ‘corrected’ versions without checking them, many of those who want to spoil your work will be very happy to take that opportunity.
Elizabeth
As said above, there is nothing in the way that you write in English that would stop anyone understanding it. It is way above what most school leavers in the UK could achieve.
You are not writing a book, it is a short life blog where speed and ease of writing for you are most important. Perfection is not needed in a world of text speak!
Don’t worry about it, just keep it coming, its brilliant.
JohninMK
Oh, what can I say with my poor English / my fifth language / I never learn to write I have just learned by reading the English articles.
Your English is very clear to everyone and I really like the style. In this era of the fast changing historical situations what you always want to present for us here and for the world I personally consider this as an assault towards you to always confront your typos. As it was mentioned above unfortunately 99.9% English speaking people who were born into the English speaking country as a native language don’t write as perfect as you do. Proposal is very helpful, but you have to be sure your words are not going to be twisted.
You have mentioned that your colleagues who helped you to moderate this site they have bailed you out. This could be the answer that some of my posts were delated and never posted. I have never posted antisemitic or provocative messages, I have never write hateful comments, I do’t use the cup lettering / maybe one word or so / and the post weren’t posted. It never happened before you have moderated this site. You have always posted everything even later I have discovered they were very bad typos in my post.
Anyway, thank you so much for your hard work we really appreciate all of your typos and don’t worry about it because you are original and you are not copying anyones ideas and opinion.
You are one of the best inspiration for the world between the peace fighters.
“H” gives every appearance of being a very competent copy editor. His text reads very well. Comparing his text to the original I can’t find a spot where he has intruded with meaning or interpretation that are his and not the author’s.
If the text had been posted originally in such a clean form I would not trust it. No one without an editing budget can post frequently and meet the standard set by “H”. A blog with an editing budget would give the appearance of funded state propaganda.
The last well-known author to submit “clean copy” is usually considered to be Virginia Woolf. Her father was an editor. Her mother was an author and a publisher. Her husband was an author and an editor. Standard English was and substantially still is the language spoken by her precise social class and social set. She worked very hard and had enormous talent. Her one work that was a failure had to be ‘Three Guineas’, when she attempted to write about current political affairs. Saker is a far better political author than Mrs. Woolf.
I enjoy the ambiguity of meaning in most of Saker’s texts. The process of deriving meaning from fragments is good exercise for the brain.
Only Anonymous because I am too darn old for Blogger.
I totally agree with BTW.
As a German, I know how much time it takes to write down my thoughts in foreign language. So I have no problems with your typos. The analysis and the information you give us, and especially your unique style are much more important. Thanks for all.
I have had another friend agreeing to pre-moderate for me, and I could ask another two, but why go down that road?
Of all the thoughtful writing by you this the dumbest thing ever. Just keep looking so you have more time for family and blogging.
If you were earning a living doing this that would be different but you’re not.
Your typos do not bother me at all, Saker. You are the best :) forget about corrections!
Hello Saker,
The consensus looks to be that no one is too concerned about typos. So as Larchmonter said, KISS. My suggestion is to forget about corrected postings.
And I’m happy that you’re taking a more aggressive approach with comments.
Michael
Typos were a big deal in the internet’s early days. I still remember the late 90s when spelling nazis were as ubiquitous as zionist shills.
But times have changed. Nobody gives a shit about typos anymore. The internet meta-mind has realized that the point of writing is to communicate, not to preen or show off.
Vortex
Live with your minor typos, as should we, adding additional layer of editing is not worth the time involved!
Regards,
Ian
I second BTW 15:25.
I wouldn’t waste time and energy worrying about or dealing with a typo here and there.
Anyone with basic intelligence can easily “read through” an occasional typo. I have always been bemused by commenters who take time to point out trivial typos. Relax! Professional proofreaders love to find errors, but what is the point here? If there is actually a wrong word, as occurred recently, someone will point it out and we’ll all be back on track very soon.
The main thing is the analysis and the presentation of nuances that you perceive, written in a spontaneous, non-stuffy style. This is invaluable. IMO the language is just fine as is and a typo or two doesn’t affect your credibility One. Little. Bit. (to borrow a Nora-ism!)
Doing your own moderation is probably a better use of your time and focus than worrying about typos. You wouldn’t want to have to oversee other moderators, right?
I am curious, though, as to why you use the spelling Eltsin. I know that the Russian E is pronounced Ye, but still, it looks like an odd hybrid to me.
Katherine
Razer said…21 September, 2014 16:01
“DemocracyNow! uses “Rush Transcript” when they post something perhaps in need of correction.”
All I’ve seen there in print is “Rush Transcripts”, and everything they post is in dire need correction. Those turds promote everything Israel & co. wants and have worked to promote many of Israeli’s proxy wars, notably against Syria and Russia.
Alien Tech said…21 September, 2014 17:03
“I just looked at my Snickers bar…Country of Origin: Russia…If this is made in one of Poroshenko’s factories I might need to get an intestinal cleanup a lot of mouthwash and maybe an enema.”
A Russian Snickers? That’s like a Russian Pabst Blue Ribbon. ;)
Na zdorovye, Pabst! Russian brewing company buys iconic American beer label
http://rt.com/business/189328-russia-pabst-beer-purchase/
Snickers is to chocolate as Pabst is to beer. :) Hard to imagine Russian making such a debased product, the candy I mean. The Pabst thing is a paper transfer – no self respecting Russian would actually make a psuedo-beer like Pabst, they are not New Yorkers, who seem incapable of decent beer making, or parasitic, closet gay nazi far righties like the Coors family in Colorado (a place were such white trash seem to congregate).
BTW, doubtful Porkshank has any candy business left in Russia by now, he was essentially booted last summer, upon which the Israeli-American PBS predictably went into the usual fascist hysterics about as the ZPC were already preparing “orange revolution, mk.2 by then.
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Hi Saker !
Thanks for the great “housekeeping” post…I was hoping to hear how your son is doing ?
I love your posts with all the mistakes…its totally precious….
And…
I wonder if you were to “re-post” the correction without proof-reading it, whether there will come a day when you regret doing this because of some terrible mistake that was posted by you without being proof-read.
I’m super glad you’re going to be moderating still…that’s a really precious part of this blogsite too.
You’re simply the best….
Ann
Saker !
Sorry to again send a comment on the same topic…but I like your spelling mistakes way way better than a corrected version.
But I agree that for posts that are being re-posted on other sites, the corrected version might (or might not) be better.
Please do not abandon us to ‘correct’ posts.
Saker,
I know you have some typos, but it really does not affect the ability to read and understand everything you write. Don’t worry about it:) aAlthough, anything that takes you away from the actual writing is too bad, I’ve learned so much and now you’re a “must visit” destination for me every night.113
Saker ,
Do not get upset by spelling mistakes . Your comments are perfectly legible. This blog is about
Information of what goes on Ukraine and it does a wonderful job . Just ignore the critics about spelling or grammar mistakes , there are pedantic people everywhere . Those people probably speak only english . forget about it . Every body here knows that English is not your mother language and so you are forgiven . Thanks for your efforts .
Anti EU
@spelling mistakes
The really upsetting ones are the
then instead of than
than (conjunction): “He’s taller than I am”.
then (adverb): “The rain stopped and then started again”.
affect instead of effect:
affect :verb (used with object)=
to act on; produce an effect or change in:
Cold weather affected the crops.
effect: verb (used with object)=
to produce as an effect; bring about; accomplish; make happen:
“The new machines finally effected the transition to computerized accounting last spring”.
Don’t feel too guilty. The journalists (supposed to be literate) practically imposed this confusion.
Let’s consider it’s a style: “I have time to write only not to proofread”
I take it.
Have tons of mistakes of my own
Attn: Crosstalk re: “The Russia Story” shows the information loop between a sub group in Russia ( Atlanticists) and the NYT and The Economist….very interesting.
@ Saker:
A few of us are Type A, some are Type B, but most are Type O. It’s in our blood!
It’s your blog. If you wish to make accommodation for the nitpickers, go ahead. IMHO it is a wasted effort. Those who value form over substance are usually the last to see through the propaganda.
Your posts are intended to inform us as best you can. Most of your readers are adept at picking the truth out of so-called “news” intended to deceive. This talent makes them good at spotting typos, but also at discerning the intended meaning. Your honest mistakes will not slow them down enough to be a problem. .
Thanks for efforts
– Clouded Leopard /
@What the heck does egregious mean? Jesus, this is my first language…
These are words you learn at school, not on the footy pitch.
Your typos have never bothered me much as they rarely interfere with following your argument, understanding your key points, etc.
Obviously, the blog is a labor of love written under immense time pressure, and we shouldn’t be expecting Nabokov or Borges here.
That said, your English prose is very good — better than the vast majority of native speakers so how in the world can we whine about it?
I was amazed when you commented that English wasn’t even your second or third language? I couldn’t help wondering — what are your primary languages after Russian?!
@Saker
Yes you do
Saw the comment and thought nothing of it. She’s attached to that word, liberal. I could have writen your response word for word. Actually I recall thinking how much your political learning curve was exactly like mine.
Mass Zombiehood is mostly chemical, I think, but sometimes it goes a-way in the other direction (picture Mr. Nora nodding with a knowing look;).