From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 28 14:29:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sttlpop1.sttl.uswest.net (sttlpop1.sttl.uswest.net [206.81.192.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 85FEC14C18 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 14:29:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kzentner@u.washington.edu) Received: (qmail 28562 invoked by alias); 28 Oct 1999 21:29:19 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 28541 invoked by uid 0); 28 Oct 1999 21:29:18 -0000 Received: from sdslppp8.sttl.uswest.net (HELO ?192.168.0.2?) (63.224.47.8) by sttlpop1.sttl.uswest.net with SMTP; 28 Oct 1999 21:29:18 -0000 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 14:29:19 -0700 (PDT) From: kristopher X-Sender: darxpryte@gabrielle.washington.edu To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cant these people spell? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, freebsd-chat-digest wrote: >:So... What makes you god ? just because they cant type doesnt not mean they >:dont need help.... rember one day you guys where a newbie too..... we all >:were I mean show some niceness geeze.. oh damm did I spell a word wrong time >:for me to get bitch at too eh... > >Let's see, elipses too long and to short, misspelled remember, mean to >newbies, 'Why should I have to use proper grammar and sentence structure' >question. If this were usenet, you'd already be getting a bonehead reply. > Since this is a technical forum I'll just skip it. > >The ability to type a proper sentence has nothing to do with being new to >computers. If you can't write a letter effectively, you don't need to be >using a computer, you need to be in school learning how to read and write. > > Jamie Bowden Ummm...I think this was meant as a joke, and even if it wasn't you didn't do a very good job in correcting him (yes you even spelled ellipses wrong). There were far more spelling errors than that. Like most people who are devout followers of prescriptive grammar you need to lighten up. A thread like this could easily lead to a holy war between proper English vs. American English vs. King's English. Posts on the 'net aren't meant to be critiqued on some "standard". They are meant to be read for content. Keep in mind you're being awfully harsh to our ESL friends out there. There is no universally accepted standard of prescriptive written American English (I don't care what Miss Manners says). ========================================================================== Kristopher Zentner | "Would you tell me, please, which Aspiring Linguist | way I ought to go from here?" FreeBSD Advocate | "That depends a great deal on kzentner@u.washington.edu | where you want to go." said the Cat ========================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message