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It’s jarring trying to read past incorrect language.  I’m trying to read one of the CotC entries this week and the first sentence starts:

“Back in August of last year, I posted a blog about...”

So instead of being able to read further, I grumbled snarkily to myself “no, you ‘posted about’ or you ‘blogged about’.”

Saying you “posted a blog” is like saying you “drove a road.” Or perhaps you “fired a deer” when you were out hunting.  A nice pointless buck.  Hey, let’s go “eat some refrigerator!” There’s some English in there I killed, skinned and butchered the other day.

A blog is where you post.

A post is on a blog.

Blogging is the act of writing any one or more post on a blog, and of generally authoring and maintaining a blog.

Saying you “posted a blog” is like saying you “wrote a magazine in Newsweek.” No, you didn’t.  You wrote an article in Newsweek.

You may be an amateur, as a blogger, but there’s no need to shout out your newbie cred for the world to disdain.

When I came to a screeching halt at that point, I found it impossible to ladder past it without being chuted unceremoniously back to the beginning.  Thus this therapeutic post.

1. You could have waited until later today until blogging about this. It still wouldn’t be a magazine, but it would be a Saturday evening post…

   Posted by triticale  on  02/24  at  10:14 AM  from  the you know house
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