The Governor's winning streak continues, thanks again to the Herald. Michael Levenson of the Globe reports on the Tabloid of Record's recent blogathon with Patrick:
"These questions seem so canned," a chatter calling himself "Sam" complained to the governor at the end of the chat. ".... everything is spelt perfectly and he is always address correctly....this is not how bloggers ask questions.... we don't conform to punctuation or grammer..."
"Sam, I don't blog a lot," the governor wrote. "But I was an English major, so I can't help but try to get the punctuation and grammar right. Deal with it."
Sam wasn't the first reader to broach the subject. Earlier in the chat, another participant, this one with the handle "DemsScrewU_Again," wrote: "Is this going to be all softball questions and canned answers?"
"Pulleeeze!" the governor wrote. "The answers are coming slowly because I type slowly. Otherwise, I will let the partisan blog name go."
First, I'd just like the note the awesomeness of a blog post on a newspaper's blog report about another newspaper's liveblog with Governor Patrick. With luck, a Herald commenter will link back to this story and complete the Circle of Bloviation (which, typically, is devoted only to style and completely ignores the substance of whatever the Governor had to say). Second, His Excellency has live blogged on BMG as well and it is true: he thinks through his answers, types them carefully, and proofreads them, just like everyone does here. This is exactly what one wants in a Governor. Third, hurray for spelling and grammar. The Internet has produced one of the greatest expansions in written correspondence in history, and we should make the most of it. I'm all for acronyms and emoticons BTW, the challenge is to integrate them into proper grammar, which makes written communication easier to understand and more gracious. :-) |
