Looking back over previous posts, because yes, you should read your own blog (especially if you instruct other people to do so), it is impossible not to notice how often the first-person singular pronoun comes up. (Grammar check? Right term? Think so.) It should also be apparent how difficult it is to avoid, even just from the first few sentences in this post. Eeeek.
Will persevere. Was reading a "professional" blog Sunday. Apparently, the author has been able to commercialize her thoughts enough, and link to enough products and ads that her blog now supports her, her husband AND their assistant, who just does all the little things she's too impossibly busy to do for herself. The California life must be so hard. Will never read that blog again in order to passive-aggressively protest the commercialization of the forum. Will also not buy Suave hair products (biggest ad, probably). Would not have done that anyway.
Whew. Nothing like talking around the point. But it keeps going! Love a challenge. Kind of like teaching myself to speak Welsh. Only know a few words and phrases, but it's like nothing else on earth. It will be very handy on my retirement trip to Wales. In 40 years. Extra eeeek.
Does it count when other first person singular pronouns are used? Like "me" and "my"? Doesn't look quite as bad as all the one-word ones littering previous posts, but it is probaby cheating. And dropping pronouns does give sentences a sort of immediate, modern, text-message-like feel. If that's what we're going for these days.
Hmmm. The computer does not seem to care for the spelling of "eeeek" with more than two "e"s. Not willing to let it have that one. Will continue to use at least four. Should not spellcheck blog anyways. Any spelling errors would just be personal expressions, but there weren't any at any rate, so self-confidence also needs work.
Enough for now!
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