As seen on a poster regarding regular exercise:

Increases fat removing HDL in the blood

What? A hyphen would make this more correct. Fat is mostly bad for you, and HDL is mostly good for you, after all, and why would exercising increase body fat?

Increases fat-removing HDL in the blood

Ah, much better.

So many of you may not know that I also run a grammar blog called Language Rules! (tee hee) that, by most measures, is quite successful, or at the very least oft-visited. As of early last week, there were almost 27,000 hits on the site with nearly a hundred daily visits.

To a grammar site. About grammar.

GRA.     MER. I must have been mistaken because I didn’t think people were all that interested in grammar.

The funny thing about it, though, is that there has been one post to it in the past year or so. The vast majority of the hits come from Google searches and people wondering whether their writing is correct or not. There is literally zero traffic coming from RSS readers and very little from direct links. Why would there be? It’s a site about grammar.

But, as of late last week, it was taken down. It appears that, without warning, it suddenly began violating WordPress’ Terms of Service. With one-ish post in the last year. No emails, no warnings, no cease and desist letters. Just taken down. The ToS discusses things like defamation and nudity and obscenities and “racial objectionability,” things typically reserved only for the most extreme of grammar blogs, not ours. And no one has gotten back to me after numerous emails about how or why or whether it will be put back up or whether the content even still exists anymore.

So, on their suggestion, I tried the forums. Seems those don’t work either. See? (Can anyone else access these?)

What’s the deal, WordPress? It’d be nice to have a little communication here.

The importance of learning how to use apostrophe’s properly.