Very good and comprehensive write up.
Well done. Very informative thanks.
I ask your indulgence. Before I ever hit send, I know how this is going to sound. I will apologize right up front. [RANT] My elementary school teachers taught me that poor grammar, misspellings and poor punctuation took away from writing. I struggled with it as a young lad. To get better I had to work at it...hard. They marked my work down. My parents worked with me to understand when to use commas and when not to use commas. They taught me the difference between loose and lose, and to, too and two. Oh yea....and your and you're.
So while I enjoy the content of what the writer is attempting, I can't say either "very good" or "well done", because to me it was neither.
I'm just an Old Guy, and I know it and admit it. I'm stuck in a world of internet chat boards where many of the rules are out the window. I don't expect any of my fellow posters in HF to be correct, grammatically or otherwise. Like you, I'm not getting paid for this. It seems that since those rules are out in a community like this, folks don't care about them when they are getting paid to write, even if it gets shared here. But for what it's worth, I really appreciate your submissions much more when they are well written, grammatically correct and using proper punctuation - even if I do disagree with your opinion.
When people point out my mistakes, errors or misspellings in this forum, or if I catch my own after I hit post, I'm actually embarrassed and ashamed. (For those too young and don't remember, shame was a concept that became extinct from our society sometime in the 1980's - I think Morton Downey Jr. killed it; either him or Madonna).
So, I appreciate the effort to provide more Blue Jacket commentary, analysis and coverage. But the lack of an editor, or effort to correct your work, makes me question the intelligence of the writer. Again, I know I'm an old fuddy-duddy. But it was drilled into me hard that if I ever had any hope of being taken seriously, or having my opinion or research accepted, it had to be presented in proper English.
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