Author: allan johnson
Date: 20:44:19 10/15/02
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On October 15, 2002 at 22:35:09, Dann Corbit wrote: >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 Dann: Do you mean malaise here? and it will be unlikely to find >excellence from that source in the future. Of course, I have been pleasantly >surprised on many occastions. And occasions here? I know from the content of your posts over a period of time that as an individual you are intelligent, observant and logical.These two errors are probably typos.Even if you couldn't be bothered correcting them I am still impressed with your logic and eloquence.I disagree though with your comments that sloppy spelling,grammar and the like equate necessarily with sloppy everything. I don't agree with Rick's summation of the Fritz programme but certainly don't think his intelligence warranted the attack you and Martin subjected him to. Reagards Al 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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