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Old 12-19-2008, 11:59 AM   #16
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Hi,


I never requested to sticky the post.
I know you didn't - however, if you hope to make a
difference it should have been ;}

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Technical questions are composed within a forum. The composition quality will dictate the quality of response for both parties.
Absolutely, we're on the same wavelength here.

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As for an essay, your viewpoint. My purpose here is to help others with my participation within the forums. As for language cruelty, your judgment again. I feel more people should speak out concerning these issues.
I think you're not quite getting where I'm heading. I whole-
heartedly agree with your views, and the tenor of your
statements. The "language cruelty" was a play on words,
trying to align with something like "cruelty against animals",
and was aimed at what people "speaking" SMSish, or net-, or
l33t-speak do to the English language. Not at your statements.


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If you feel pacification is the answer then that too me is poor moderation. The technical communication within any forum should be correct and direct. Any form of communication that will assist to meet those goals would be a benefit for all. :)
It's not about pacification; it's about some sort of agreed
(or defined by Jeremy, the site owner) standard of categorisation
of forums, and their purpose. And your thread isn't a Linux
question. Simple as that. Placing your thread into the
appropriate forum has nothing to do with pacification.



Cheers,
Tink

Last edited by Tinkster; 12-19-2008 at 12:00 PM.
 
Old 12-19-2008, 12:12 PM   #17
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My prior post in this thread states my views but I have one question.

Where do we draw the line?

Make everyone take an English test and show a High School Diploma?

My point is after reading a post you can usually tell if a person is trying and even if his/hers English skills are below par they still should have the right to post on these forums and seek help.

You do have the right to ignore the thread.

Last edited by Larry Webb; 12-19-2008 at 12:16 PM.
 
Old 12-19-2008, 12:37 PM   #18
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i don't understand all the complaints here i mean that if you are intelligent and up to date people you should be able to understand what someone writes regardless of how they spell or punctuate it so you are merely being arrogant if you won't read their posts because they don't correspond to your elitist preferences and i don't think that it is a good idea for anyone to be elitist because that merely brings the whole board down so what you need to do is read their stuff carefully anyway and offer to help them but not with their spelling and punctuation because that is not appropriate so with all of that what i have to say is be tolerant people and be helpful not judgmental or arrogant because not everyone knows as much as you do but everyone does know more than you do in some field or another so you need to recognize that today it is them looking for help but tomorrow it might be you looking for help and anyway it isn't their fault if they were badly educated in the american government school system and even so many of them have succeeded in life and that doesn't even include those who don't speak english natively and have to do it as a second language which is hard for many of them so give a break to them please.

There. See? Perfect spelling. I'm sure no one has any trouble at all following my argument.
 
Old 12-19-2008, 12:38 PM   #19
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Every language with is not you're native language will always stay a foreign language .
Read a lot of English and American books , do have even 3 grand children who are English , it stays a foreign language for me.
To describe you're problem in writing correctly in you're own language is already difficult , even more to do so in a foreign language.
So in my humble opinion as long as we do understand the question what is the problem.
 
Old 12-19-2008, 12:59 PM   #20
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Is there a feature which allows one poster to ignore (not display) posts from another poster? This may provide a means of blocking posts from other members who are offended or annoyed by repeat offenders.
 
Old 12-19-2008, 01:19 PM   #21
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Is there a feature which allows one poster to ignore (not display) posts from another poster? This may provide a means of blocking posts from other members who are offended or annoyed by repeat offenders.
Go to that user's profile, click the dropdown named "User Lists" and click the ignore option.
 
Old 12-19-2008, 01:36 PM   #22
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One time I asked someone to put some effort in correcting their grammer and spelling. There was almost one glaring error per word, making his point post about Artificial Intelligence not only difficult to read, but given the subject, the irony made me think it might be a parady. However, I misspelled a word in my own post and the moderator made me eat crow.
 
Old 12-19-2008, 01:45 PM   #23
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but given the subject, the irony made me think it might be a parady. However, I misspelled a word in my own post and the moderator made me eat crow.
That's "parody"


/me ducks and covers. :}



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Old 12-19-2008, 01:46 PM   #24
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One time I asked someone to put some effort in correcting their grammer and spelling. There was almost one glaring error per word, making his point post about Artificial Intelligence not only difficult to read, but given the subject, the irony made me think it might be a parady. However, I misspelled a word in my own post and the moderator made me eat crow.
You mean like "parody"?
 
Old 12-19-2008, 02:03 PM   #25
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My point is after reading a post you can usually tell if a person is trying and even if his/hers English skills are below par they still should have the right to post on these forums and seek help.

You do have the right to ignore the thread.
Here, here. And...the solution to the poor posting generally is that the posters do not receive help as often as the people who generally follow the agreed upon guidelines do (or the http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html) Or they receive help preferentially from people using the same language. Language evolves; it is a kind of a self correcting problem.
 
Old 12-19-2008, 02:05 PM   #26
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Not to mention "grammar". Another typo...graffickel...grafikle...error.

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Old 12-19-2008, 06:02 PM   #27
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Like I said ....
 
Old 12-19-2008, 06:13 PM   #28
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LQ picks linux as misspelled.
 
Old 12-19-2008, 06:22 PM   #29
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Perhaps, English entrance exams should be introduced in order to register with LQ. Apart from punctuation and capitalisation, I'd suggest that you should test the knowledge of the verbal group in the language of Shakespeare (or Ezra Pound in case of American candidates)
 
Old 12-19-2008, 06:27 PM   #30
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It probably makes more sense for mods to instantly close any poorly composed threads

Be a bit more dictatorial chaps.
 
  


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