Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 19:35:09 10/15/02
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On October 15, 2002 at 22:21:04, Rick Terry wrote: [snip] > Ok Dann I am 38 years old, but believe me based on your reply's here I know >for a fact you are younger, 45. > also i can see you don't have a wide experience with >a variety of different people., You obvously know nothing at all about me. ;-) >you probally spent most of your adult years in a >university. 4 of them. That's about 9% of my life. >Life teaches you far more then any University can ever teach my >friend believe that. Some people learn slower than others. >As to spelling I don't take this forum or any other site on >the internet seriously enough to check my every word for spelling, but I think >it is wildly specultive of someone to to imply that I can't spell or am very >young, I can't think of a million reasons why someone could spell badly with >nothing to do with intelligence or maturity. All the reasons below are related to intelligence or maturity. >Sorry but I can't take you serious >here, I don't believe you actually believe your own words, surely you can see >how rediculous these assumptions are. Some reasons for bad spelling..... Systematic error, I see. > >1. Poor typing skills Lack of physical maturity and slow learning capacity. >2. Lazyness to correct errors based on long day at work Lazyness is related to immaturity and low intelligence, in my view. >3. a few beers too many Lack of intelligence, again. >4. sommeone gets excited and in a hurry and overlooks typo's. Emotional immaturity. >5. The forum is just not that important to the indivisual to take painstaking >steps to insure spelling perfection. Lack of diligence is a sign of immaturity no matter where it surfaces. Anything worth doing is worth doing well. If you are incapable of doing a good job, then why bother? >6. Person thinks CONTENT is more important then quality of spelling. Do you imagine that excellence of content has been demonstrated? >Personally I think people that point out typo's are very petty and cynical. I >have to much to do and to think about rather then sweat someone on the small >stuff. No one here is perfect. Certainly nobody has reached a state of perfection. That does not mean that striving for excellence is a bad idea. I have found that quality of content is almost always directly proportional to excellence in other areas such as spelling, humor, etc. A very poorly punctuated post with foul language in it is (to me) symptomatic of a general malise and it will be unlikely to find excellence from that source in the future. Of course, I have been pleasantly surprised on many occastions. It is also true that for many this forum is in a language which is not their first or even second language. In such an instance, I can only admire their tremendous efforts to communicate in a tongue not their own. In fact, many do achieve an elegance -- despite the fact that they are speaking in a language for which they have a mastery far below that of their native tongue. It makes me wonder what sort of eloquence they could impart to me in their native tongue if only I understood it. Bottom line: Sloppy posting, sloppy ideas, sloppy everything. Usually, they go hand and foot.
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