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> Do people that can't spell very well deserve to have their opinions ignored? Yes. Indeed they do. Good spelling is a mark of conscientiousness and attention

• bradjohnson 11y ago
  >Bad spelling is indicative of loose morals and an addiction to video games and misogyny that should be extirpated from polite society. Is that a joke? How can you possibly justify that conclusion?
  • TronPaul_ 11y ago
    I was waiting for the /s as well. Having spent some time on the internet I've spoken and chatted with people for whom English is a second language. Are you telling me that their deficient understanding of English indicates a lack of morality? Is the English language a religion now? Guess I didn't get the memo.
    • thaumasiotes 11y ago
      related: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=18667 http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=18667 The author is the daughter of Czech emigrants, writing about her experience visiting the Czech Republic, with an focus on the difference between learning a new language as an adult and re-learning a language you once knew. From the link: > There can be a striking lack of accommodation or cooperation on the part of listeners [in rural Czech areas]. Once, when traveling with my brother, I watched him flounder in Czech at a small town gas station, trying to convey which pack of cigarettes he wanted to purchase—he had forgotten the brand name, and was trying to describe the appearance of the package. Ignoring his pointing gestures, the cashier sat stone-faced through his attempts. When she finally identified what he wanted, she tossed the cigarettes on the counter, saying contemptuously, “As you can see, the package is red, not pink.” My brother apologized, “I’m sorry, my Czech is very bad.” “I can see that,” she replied without cracking the slightest smile. Experience with second-language learners is, speaking broadly, vanishingly rare among humans. Most people never meet any language learners. The rural Czechs are going by a rule of thumb: someone speaking that badly is more likely to be severely mentally retarded than anything else. (And they're correct about that! If they started seeing a flood of foreign tourists with rudimentary Czech, they'd adjust accordingly.)
• return0 11y ago
  > accept other peoples suggestions Are you insinuating they should accept suggestions from other nations and tribes? Or did you just omit the "'" , thus exposing yourself as a misspellist, a loosemoralist , a videogamist and misogynist? I hope the Trolly Inquisition finds you and burns your router!
• flohofwoe 11y ago
  I can't tell whether this is serious or a joke, I hope it's a joke since it sounds like taken right from the McCarthy era. Ah, now I understand, you're trying to be a troll, very clever ;)
  • olefoo 11y ago
    The gentleman to whom I was replying made a reference to shared blocklists as censorship. Having had to support a couple of friends through the showers of verbal excrement that get thrown their way by a group that call itself "Gamergate". I am less than sympathetic to the viewpoint that someone can demand the right to be listened to as well as the right to speak. Allow me to be explicitly and excruciatingly clear on that point. You are free to say whatever you want, to print it, to publish it on the internet, to build signs on your property, etc. without fearing arrest or detention. But; you do not have the right to demand that others spend even a fraction of a second of their time on this earth paying attention to you. And by loose morals I mean that disgusting sense of entitlement to others time and bodily affection that seems to characterize the "Gamergate community".
• hewhowhineth 11y ago
  You forgot to add pedophilia, racism, terrorism, and drugs to that list. Hundreds of millions of people all over the world speak English as their second, third or fourth language. That fact alone makes them more interesting than some grammar sharia asshole. Edit: grammar :)