No this is not a post about Blink 182, though there is much to be said about their rhetoric. One of the
most annoying things is when people have a great idea in their writing or
speech, but their execution fails because of little things. I once had to sit
through an entire 8 minutes presentation in science class about organisms in
our eco system. That of course is normal for anyone who ha taken a bio class,
but what was abnormal was that the girl said orgasm instead of organism for 8
whole minutes. No matter how good her
presentation was no one could get past that one small detail.
I’m sure
everyone has seen some rhetoric where the idea and content is well done, but
there are basic details that the audience just cannot get past. Whether it is
grammar issues, or spelling, it is distracting from the point of the writing. I
know I do this a lot, everyone does. It is easy to make mistakes with spelling
and grammar, but it is when it because repetitive that it gets annoying. People
have their own pet peeves, I hate when people say “I’m doing good” and my best
friend can’t stand when people use you’re and your wrong.
So while
the elegant aspects of rhetoric are important, the small stuff is just as essential.
Just because you learned about it in 3rd grade, it does not make it
any less important.
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