Inventive spelling? More like an excuse to never learn how to spell properly period.

I’m sorry, but there is no eventual transition to correct spelling. I’ve read over submissions to Luna from supposed eighteen year olds who still insist on spelling things exactly this way. They’ve never learned how to correctly spell. And these are the people we’re sending to college? This is the future? Stop the world, I want off.

It’s crap like this in our schools that are contributing to the decay of the English language and the increasing gap between American students and students of other countries. Sure, you know how kids learn… but by encouraging this you’re making sure they never improve. It seems teachers are giving kids the clear message that spelling and good writing skills don’t matter.

Blah, I tell you. Blah!

Sally and I just upgraded the blogs, fanlisting script, and now I’m faced with having to do the forums. Again. Blarg. Sometime soon I need to break down and begin working on getting Luna upgraded too and recreating all the mods everyone has come to expect.

Not looking forward to upgrading the dictionary again either.

I hate having to redo mods and hacks. *whine*

Okay, I get it. My spelling and grammar skills have decayed since I started programming. You [the brats at Lunaescence] can stop citing me as the reason why your stories should be allowed in with or without spelling mistakes.

From here on out, I’m back behind the scenes over at Lunaescence. I’ve revoked my own account’s validation so my stories have to be approved just like everyone else’s.

Sorry if this sounds pissy, but the attitude-filled e-mail responses have gotten really old.

/WHINE ON

Whoever decided how HTML and CSS displays on Internet Explorer really needs to be taken out and shot thrown off a bridge beaten to within an inch of their lives had their head examined.

*cough* Yeah.

Arrh! Why is it I can always make my layouts look really good in FireFox, passable in Opera, and pretty damned nice in everything else…. BUT Internet Explorer??

Anyway, trying to finish up my Pink layout and get it up on the site. It had been looking pretty decent on my computer, but once I put it up on my site — it broke. Badly. In both Opera and MSIE, but MSIE is far worse.

( I even broke out my book of cheats, so I could make that annoying horizontal scrollbar go bye-bye. ^^; )

I also realized how badly my story listings looked, so I’m redoing those too. I hate doing the story listings. Everything else goes really smoothly (once I get off my ass), until I get to those damned things. Second most hated is the front page, where I have to put up the poll, recently added, and news blocks.

I really wish they’d just hurry up and MAKE a CSS command that would automatically give blocks nice, rounded corners.

/WHINE OFF

Okay, it suddenly occured to me that I’ve had my bag of Darjeeling tea a whole month and hadn’t tried it yet. ^^;

They’re changing out the water mains near where I live, so we’re on a boil water notice anyway. What better way to make the most of all that boiling than to make myself piss like a racehorse brew gallons of tea.

It’s got an interesting flavor. It’s clearly a black tea, but the stuff I have has almost a floral taste to it. It’s nice and bold too. (yum!)

I think I have a second favorite. =) Of course, my favorite is still my Kukicha Hatsukura. So much tea, so little time.

Anyroad, spending more time on my dictionary. I hate leaving the main page in a lurch like this, but I’m not going to fiddle around with the code any further until the new version comes out.

I’m in an odd position where I can tell my dictionary is getting decent usage, lots of people are using it, searching through it, and linking to it when they need to define something. Usage ranges from anime sites, blogs, and a few gaming sites. Heck, I’m even getting hits from a few colleges who are linking to me as a cultural resource. (Though I have to call my own authority into question here…) But I’ll be damned if I know what to do with the thing. I had no intention of making it into a Japanese <-> English dictionary, but I’ve added 50+ words I’ve picked out of my Naruto fansubs.

As bent out of shape as I get about not getting feedback for the main site, I get absolutely nothing out of the dictionary. I received my first e-mail about it in three years day before last (sent through the library *sigh*), when someone e-mailed me about my definition of yuri. They insist I have to include that it also means beauty, claiming that their Japanese teacher told it meant that. Their inclusion of their teacher’s name doesn’t mean much to me; but, some kanji I could print out and take to Yoshiko’s when she gets back (or e-mail to Ook) would have been better.

The ‘tone’ of the e-mail annoyed me enough that I deleted both his original message and his reply, even though they’re still sitting in my trash folder. And this brings me to the real point of this post. I beg and plead for help almost every update. Yet when someone tries to offer me some feedback I get annoyed.

Heh.

Was it because it was sent through the wrong form? I run the damned dictionary, but I spent nearly a half hour trying to find where I’d explained what yuri was on the library. -_-;; Of course, I also have my dictionary form set up so it preceeds every e-mail with “DICTIONARY — {subject}”.

Was it the tone? I don’t mind someone telling me they study Japanese, but this guy tried to explain his credentials in his second reply — even going as far as to give his teacher’s name. The actual content of both e-mails after that was a single sentence. It felt almost arrogant to me.

Or am I the one being arrogant?

I don’t know. I checked my Japanese <-> English dictionaries and all I found was yuri (alone) meaning lily and that it was a girl’s name. So, I e-mailed Ook. (*super glomps!* Thanks!)

Maybe it’s time I just remove the contact form…