LB: Welcome readers! I think the best way to introduce this new blog is to tell you how it was born. One of my best friends from college, Carden and I had been talking about wanting to start writing together for a blog. He's a writer by profession, and I'm a writer by hobby. We knew we wanted it to be a forum for the male and female sides of various issues, from entertainment reviews to sports commentary to the issues of dating in the information age. We already enjoyed exchanging ideas in an informal way. Sometimes we'll agree, and sometimes we won't - but it almost always results in an entertaining and funny conversation. So we thought, why not share our thoughts in hopes that they might entertain you?
The idea was easy enough to come by - but the title for our blog, not so much. We grappled with the issue that most of the "obvious" titles ("His & Hers", etc.) suggested that we are a couple, which we are not. After scrapping the idea of including our genders in the title, we raided an online Thesaurus looking for synonyms for words like "verbose", "banter" and "juxtaposition." Everything came out sounding either too sexual, too pretentious, or too confusing. Finally, I started considering different common English phrases...and since "In Other Words" was taken, we finally settled on "Pardon Our English." Both of our brains fried from all this creative brainstorming, we were happy to finally be able to just start the damn writing.
We hope you enjoy our takes on various and sundry things that pass through our brains. And now, I'll let Carden take the wheel.
CW: I'm a guy. She's not. We talk about a lot of stuff, have different views and they're entertaining/thought-provoking.
Seriously though, coming up with a title was a way bigger pain than I ever could have imagined. The great and terrible thing about the intertubes is that everyone can get to them. That means that not a lot is original anymore. As far as I know of, we're a somewhat original idea but I'm sure that someone else is doing the same thing somewhere. I don't know if anyone can do it as well as we can, though (again, back to the overtly sexual titles--we aren't really doing it doing it. I feel like I'm going to have to really drive that home over and over). Even if we're a somewhat original idea, these blog names have been mostly picked through. We took forever. It literally got to the point where I said something like "just pick something already before the next Ice Age" or "pick something before Snooki learns manners, the finer points of the English language and that a little bronzer goes a long way." Something along those lines, I think.
At any rate, we're going to go on ahead with this nonsense and see what happens. Should be fun.
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