Comments on: Blogging Challenge: Favorite or Worst Writing Boo Boos

By: Blog Challenge: Worst Relationship Mistake « Lorelle on WordPress

Blog Challenge: Worst Relationship Mistake « Lorelle on WordPress — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 06:03:29 +0000

[...] Blogging Challenge: Favorite or Worst Writing Boo Boos [...]

By: How do you overcome blogger’s block? | Interesting Observations

How do you overcome blogger’s block? | Interesting Observations — Sun, 31 May 2009 01:11:19 +0000

[...] Favourite or worst writing boo boos [...]

By: Cleaning out my feed aggregator : Rebecca Thomas Designs

Cleaning out my feed aggregator : Rebecca Thomas Designs — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:13:13 +0000

[...] favorite WordPress blogger Lorelle wants to know about my favorite or worst blogging blunder in this week’s blogging challenge. At the moment, that would be some disparaging words levied against a character played by a [...]

By: Kirylin’s Voice » Cleaning out my feed aggregator

Kirylin’s Voice » Cleaning out my feed aggregator — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:39:25 +0000

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:12:26 +0000

I’m from Newfoundland, Canada. People from my province refer to themselves, and are referred to by others, as “Newfies”. Some people consider it a derogatory term as it is often used in jokes similar to blond jokes. “Newfies” are seen by some others as uneducated, uncultured. I wrote a post indicating that I had developed a newly charged intolerance for the term, which of course sparked a debate surrounding its use.

One comment arguing that it was ok to use the term, indicated that the term was “irreverent” when he meant to type “irrelevant”. His argument confused me until he corrected himself.

Footnote: Gosh, it’s hard to type a response to this post… being so careful not to do a Freudian typo!

By: Confident Writing

Confident Writing — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:39:13 +0000

A feast of learning

Phew! There’s so much to learn out there! Here’s some great stuff for you to get your writing teeth into: 1. What we can learn from group writing projects Robert Hruzek (Middle Zone Musings) has just published the contributions to

By: ebele

ebele — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:43:17 +0000

‘Voluptous’. There. I’m not even sure I’ve spelt it right. I almost always get it wrong, then have to spell-check it. It’s a shame really ‘cos I love the word! Damn.

By: Shiraz

Shiraz — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:01:28 +0000

I’ve often found myself omitting the n’t off words like hasn’t, couldn’t, etc. or just writing “could” instead of “could not”. Talk about changing the meaning Luckily, I have made that mistake in a while…

By: Joanna Young

Joanna Young — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:53:27 +0000

As I write about writing posting a big boo-boo is one of my greatest fears!

My most likely slip up is with homonyms (words that sound the same) because they don’t get picked up in a spell-checker. Most recent ones have been “seemier” for “seamier” and the classic “you’re” for “your”.

This was a good prompt to look back through previous posts though – and to follow my own advice and save, print and edit before posting.

Thanks for the reminder, challenge and kick to the blogging ass!

Joanna

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:16:27 +0000

While not blog related, this is writing related. This reminds me of when Boeing released a memo to all employees that the proper name for the spot where the pilots sit when flying the plane would now officially be known as the “flight deck” rather than the politically incorrect “cockpit”. A Japanese customer group toured the plant and were very impressed with all the new advanced technology in the airplane navigation systems. They wrote a letter of thank you that described their pleasure in seeing the “flight dick”.

AH – OOOO – GROAN. But that is the kind of thing that pops up in our writing – rarely intentional.