(d1) First paragraph is informal but the second paragraph makes me feel like you are about to chastise me for something. It puts me on the defensive.
(d2) Third paragraph is spending a lot of time/energy trying to get me out of a defensive state... :P
(d3) "Oh? You cannot comment?" Actually, I can. This post must not be for me. I would normally skim the remainder and then skip to the next post.
(d4) "It is important to note that comments are not permanent parts of the site and they get deleted when they outlive their usefulness." Really? That's interesting. I learned something new which is great. That makes me want to read the rest of the post to learn more things.
(d5) Paragraph starting "Yes, you are quite right. [...]" is the first time Chat is mentioned since the title. We are now 50% of the way through the post. This makes me suddenly remember this post was supposed to be about comments and chat... so what is the actual point?
(d6) "One excellent trick you can do with chat is to take a discussion in comments and move it to a chat room." You should note that [chat]
exists in comments and automatically creates a link. :)
(d7) After post end, I still don't exactly understand what the post was trying to say. There are two places to discuss things? Chat is more hectic, more off-topic, scarier but better for longer discussions?
(Side note, I "get it" in the sense that I already know which problem you are trying to address. But I feel like I only get it because I already got it.)
(e) Particular content thoughts about "One Language, Many Voices"
(e1) Firstly, great title.
(e2) Introduction paragraph quickly tells you what to expect from the post.
(e3) "English has its origins in the various north-west European dialects [...]" oof, this will be dense. If I was in a hurry I would start a quick skim here to tell me how long the post is and get a better sense of the topic. What I want to know is whether I should save this post so I can read it later.
(e3) Btw, this is where the formatting of the post hurts.
(e4) "For a period, the Wessex dialect was the most prestigious, showing that then, as now, any one variety of the language predominates not for linguistic reasons, but for political, economic and social reasons." Holy commas, Batman.
(e4) Also, I don't really know exactly what Wessex is. This makes me think this post could be for a more "expert" audience and it really collides with the target audience from the (d) post.
(e4) If both of these posts are "on-topic" for the blog, the blog will need to be very clear about who should care about each post.