The following was seen on a website:

Our main website, is back up, we apologize for the hadware issues.

Count the mistakes, right? And you're guessing that I found this on some insignificant blog? Not so! It came from a dictionary website!!

While it is still up, you can see it here: http://1828.mshaffer.com/d/word/course .

What's with the "christian religion" spiel on your link? There's no attribution.

One comma between the subject and predicate and the English language is dead? It's way more fragile than I thought.

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What's with the "christian religion" spiel on your link? There's no attribution.

If you click on the illustration, you go to a page referring to the 1828 Webster's dictionary, with a discussion of Webster's Christian bent.

Well, Goofy, it is a dictionary site. That ramps it up in my mind. Also, it is a run-on sentence the way it is.

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One comma between the subject and predicate and the English language is dead? It's way more fragile than I thought.

There's more there than just that. It should have read "Our main website [drop comma] is back up. [period replaces comma] We [capital "W" begins new sentence] apologize for the hardware [misspelling corrected] issues."

In a post 12 words long, a total of 4 mistakes would seem excessive to me if this had been someone's personal blog but, again, it was a dictionary website, a place where one might expect posters to be a tad more erudite.

Really 3 mistakes, since the lack of a capital letter flows from the fact that it is one sentence.

It's not really a dictionary site, is it? I mean it's not run by a company that publishes their own dictionary. It seems to provide a copy of Noah Webster's 1828 dictionary, which as I understand it is freely available from other sites as well.

I don't know the site, but it has a donation part to it, and there are a lot of words defined (4686) in the letter as, for example. I have to agree with CJ on this one, goofy. On Wee Willy's "essay," however, I agree with your remarks, goofy.