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05-23-2007 03:56 AM |
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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog
(Post 368608)
I don't know, to answer the OP, I'm often just slapping up posts in between whatever else I'm doing. I'm sure you feel as if I'm making up some **** but I'm not so incredibly focused on what people think of my sloppy posts here, especially since the time I do put in some effort I still get "I'm not sure I get you."
Other times I'm usually so pissed off at some stupid prevailing opinion that I'm writing a mile (lets say 1200 meters) a minute and don't even stop to think about grammar, I just want to slash at an argument.
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Believe it or not, I didn't have you in mind when I made this tread. More like people like 6655321. I'm sure that if you took the time to actually read your posts before posting them you could spell as well as the next person.:D
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Originally Posted by Frances
(Post 368780)
It's hard to convince yourself you're talking to an intelligent person when they spell worse than your 6 year old nephew who still wets the bed.
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Exactly! Although, I'm not so sure that the people who do that actually care if their opinions loose validity simply because they're spelled badly. We're basically talking about complete morons here, which is still rather puzzling because one would think that such people had difficulty finishing their schooling.
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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog
(Post 368799)
Half of you that do spell correctly have very little if anything interesting to say. You chant simple maxims and common mantras that are as conformed as your spelling.
I use to be of the mind that I would give you some sympathies in your complaint, because occasionally its valid, but I find that you're closed minded in most of your views and your failure to compromise is just as ignorant, if not more so that poor grammar.
Spelling can be fixed (just like erroneous opinions might I add), poor intellect and intellectual bankruptcy cannot. You all have your flaws. Taking a righteous stand against someone else's flaw might be bad for business in your internet popularity game. And my use of righteous isn't haphazard, people who continue to have this stance will be referred to, at least by me, as oojayhadists.
I know I crack myself up, but seriously, not since Napoleon have the political insults been that well crafted. I mean come on, thats right up there with "idealouges."
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You're fooling yourself if you think that appearance is irrelevant as opposed to content. Many will disregard the latter if it isn't packaged in standardized English.
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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog
(Post 368815)
Oh no, hyperbole to prove me wrong! whatever will i do? I mean honestly, you're looking like Crowquill in the "Why rap" thread.
If someone writes like that, its a lot different than someone who just can't spell words. English isn't exactly phonetic, and our use of 5+ languages makes it more than a little understandable that people might not spell ridiculous, tsunami, proboscis, or kindergarten correctly every time. We've all used l33t speak, so we're all guilty of the crime you're condemning. The easy and populist argument.
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I'm not saying everyone should have a vocabulary that equals that of Joyce, but when someone can't write basic thoughts in their own language I start to wonder how that can happen.
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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog
(Post 368830)
If you read my argument you'd know that my point in using those words was that none of them are English in origin. Therefore, they way they are pronounced are different and it prevents English from having a phonetically standard way of spelling words. Letters in French don't make the same sounds as German, or Japanese.
Spelling in English isn't something everyone one is going to do perfectly.
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Weak argument. It's your own language, it's not only your duty to know it, it's a necessity (or at least it should be, but seeing as how most of the people that can't spell worth a damn have gone through a certain period of schooling, it may not actually be necessary to know how to write in English to survive). |
