Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 15:24:58 01/18/00
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On January 18, 2000 at 05:40:46, Lin Harper wrote: > After being a member of this discussion group for about > a year or so, I'm well used to errors of spelling and grammar. > I don't believe in correcting anyone for them, and don't think > anyone else should. What we have to understand here is that a > lot of posters are not using their native tongue, and are doing > quite well considering. I wouldn't have mentioned this had I believe it was a non-native speaker doing the writing. People who don't speak English natively are doing a lot of work just being here and contributing, they don't need to deal with snobbery from native speakers. Not that there is any reason to be snobbish, since most of them are better writers than the natives. Nor would I have mentioned it if there was any real content to the post. I don't pick nits, if I'm going to respond I'll respond to the content, rather than picking on extraneous stuff. I was asked to delete the post, and in retrospect, I should have. I don't have a significant problem with the drug metaphor, and I couldn't really see deleting the post because of that alone. My mistake was that I didn't stop to realize that there wasn't any other content to the post. And the whole thing could have been meant in a nasty sort of way. So I don't think we would have lost anything if I'd deleted it and asked the poster to come up with a different way of disagreeing with the original poster. Sorry, bruce > Surely it's what's coming out of the poster's head that > counts. If a post is not only riddled with grammatical errors and > off topic, and stupid, then we can complain. When the poster is > making a contribution to the forum, appreciate him, don't chastise > him. > In other words, take the good from a post and have the grace > to ignore the rest. We all make mistakes. > Let's get back on topic, guys.
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