Friday, January 14, 2011

Housekeeping 101

Here's just a couple of notes to make your blogging experience, as well as the experience of other readers of No Dogs or Anglophones more worthwhile.

Even if you don't comment very often, please use an alias, when you do. It takes just a moment to personalize your comment with an 'alias' or 'handle'.
It does not affect your anonymity!
Here's how;

It's that easy!
Now people can refer to you and can follow your thoughts easily.

A note about comments
I try to edit all comments within two hours (during the daytime) but sometimes it isn't possible.
I then open comments without pre-screening. Later, when I review them, if something deserves to be removed it will be.
You'll see this message.;
 If you are deeply offended by a comment or believe it to be overly offensive or threatening please email me privately- anglomontreal@gmail.com.

If you are a lurker1, try offering an opinion just once, it will enhance your experience.

I like to think that this blog is a place where people can express their opinions freely and even rant when they want to. The Comments section is more interesting than my post which is designed to spur
discussion. Get involved!

Comments in French continue to be accepted. Although this may represent a hardship to unilingual Anglos, the benefits to open debate outweigh that handicap.

We have a lot of francophone readers (which I appreciate a lot) and so I'll often include a link that will provide an explanation to an idiom or phrase.
Many of these words and phrases are not that familiar, even to the most bilingual.

Here's an example; "lurker1

 In the above case, the link will take you to a definition of the word 'lurker' on the Urban Dictionary website. I've added a superscript to denote which dictionary definition is being referred to, in this case, the first one.;


Anyone with suggestions to make this website better please feel free to email me. If you have any suggestions for articles or see an interesting story on the web please don't be shy.

If you have a personal anecdote to share or know of something that would be of interest to our readers please drop me a line.

I get many of these types of suggestions and they all start by saying "I bet you've already seen this...." but most of the time, I haven't!
Contact me at anglomontreal@gmail.com.

If you see typos or factual errors, please use the above email address to advise me.

I never share any address with anyone and I don't even keep these messages on file, once I've responded.

Happy reading and thanks for the honour of appearing on your screen!