Cunning Return of the Linguists

Written by Tara Tainton

Monday, 02 May 2005 00:00

Few things are more satisfying, especially to a writer, than knowing you're being heard. Startling though, is realizing you're being heard by an unintended audience. Not one day after I write my blog entry about the surprising rejection of my application to the Cunning Linguists directory, I receive a message from one of the admins working behind the scenes there.

Finding himself interested enough to peruse my site himself, he also happened upon my confusion over not being accepted by the directory. Thankfully, he saw the true intention of my rant and made the kind gesture of sending me a personal message to clarify the intent of the Cunning Linguists list and its purpose. So, to help clarify for the rest of you webmistresses and masters and prolific and explicit online journal keepers who may be interested in adding your own journal to the directory, here is a bit of specific info for its intentions:

"The list is for personal erotic blogs, and we do say that in the sign up page for the list. We do this because we want to keep the list from being spammed excessively by commercial sites."

I took the information to mean that the Cunning Linguistics want to list only erotic and explicit blogs and journals. In general, that means no complete sites, especially not commercially run ones, unless there is a true, personally written blog involved. And that is where my own site fits in.

The admin extended the offer to add Tara's Trysts to the massive directory by linking directly to the blog, not my site as a whole. And I've accepted the reconsideration of my application.

I always knew I was a true, cunning linguist!

Beware you bloggers out there...remember that you're online pouring out of thoughts may actually be read. Fathom that! I know, sometimes it feels like we're all alone out here, but that's not actually the case.