Ya Feel Me?

In the course of my conversations, I tend to use the phrases “you understand?”, “you get it?”, “you feel me?” or any variation of the previous (depending on the audience, of course). To me, if I’m trying to communicate a point, if I’m trying to argue you down or whatever, I feel that you’ve got to be able to understand what the hell I’m talking about.

There was a recent “The Nanny” episode I watched (thank you Nick at Nite”), where the titular character said something to her boss/husband that made sense to the folks watching in TVLand but made no sense to him. His response was “Darling, I know that made sense in there [he points to her head], but I’m out here!” And I think that’s what a lot of bloggers do. They make a post about something and write it as though their readers have reserved seating in the control room of the blogger’s mind and can see the thought processes involved in the statement. When I read a blog post, I’ll be honest, I tend to skim unless there is a reason why I need to carefully scruntinize each paragraph, sentence and punctuation mark. And often, I can misunderstand the point because I don’t have a similar mindset or share a common background or experience. I would give you an example to illustrate what I’m talking about, but alas, I’m on my BlackBerry and don’t have any readily accessible.

I know many of my readers are bloggers themselves, so I have a question for you. If you are blogging for an audience, meaning that you want people to read and care what they think about your posts, are you making sure that your audience can understand what you’re saying? Do you re-read over your posts and edit accordingly? Or do you commit verbal diarrhea on the keyboard, hit “Submit” and never look back?

And I know this was a real quickie post (like I said-posted from the BB), but it was just something that ran across my mind.