I guess comments give positive affirmation that you’re doing something right in terms of engaging people. Not getting many comments though is not to infer that your site isn’t good or value-adding or whatever. Maybe you’re simply not high enough in the search engines for people to stumble across your content. Either way, keep plugging away, becuase I see some good and unique content here.

Prior to this post and your response you seemed like a pretty cool person, someone it might be fun to have coffee with some day. Guess not.

You’ve definitely just lost a subscriber, and my respect – which likely won’t mean much to you, but I’m disappointed by this loss.

Yes, Nico, I would rather have been born in Pennsylvania rather than this two-bit dystopia, but alas I was not. So I sought to better myself, just as I would have if I’d been born in say, Kentucky, where people talk like they’re gargling testicles.

Wendy

Frankly, I’m confused by your apparent embarrassment about your roots. Why would it be preferable to sound like you’re from Pennsylvania than Montreal or Toronto?

Why pretend to be something you’re not?

Under Dewey, Biographies and Languages are grouped together. Biographies are the 920s alphabetized by the subject’s last night and Languages are alphabetical in the 400s.

Every library I’ve been to recently actually makes large signs on the shelves or on the end of the cases to tell patrons what to expect in each section as well.

I also think you’re spot-on about learning to speak properly from such a queen of diction. My post on Allfreelancing was about learning to write well in English – not necessarily learning to speak well, hence the recommendation to avoid pop culture and lean toward the written word in conversational English.

Great post!

One of my favorite memories is of having landed in England, after a lengthy sojourn in foreign lands and happening to catch a quaint little film on television, where everyone spoke with a barely intelligible (to my ears) accent. I watched it all the way through, even though it was practically unwatchable plot-wise, because I HAD to know where it was filmed and what that gawdawful accent was… turned out to be a Canadian production!