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Oh, shall we have more fun? Work is slow this morning.

We know. You just naturally make idiotic posts here. We have accepted this, and you, into our hearts. Or at least accepted you don't amount to much.

Nah, it's surprising you think you're trying to pass yourself off. I wonder if meerkats realize they're meerkats?


First, I doubt anyone was angry. You, like all posters here, are a plaything to verbally bat around. Who gets mad at an internet poster for complaining about getting rated down for spelling? I mean, if you had written something like "I hope Chicago is bombed by terrorists," then people might get offended.

Now, if this was the experiment, please outline the hypothesis, the premise behind it, your conclusions, and what you hoped to prove.

Or, y'know, you could be trying to put some credibility into your otherwise worthless efforts here so far.

So true. And as I warned you already, it's probably a BAD idea to show that you're overly sensitive and easily offended when you come to the Asylum.

I believe we just had this debate about Palin in another thread. I think the end result was "If you can't convey your thoughts, then you could be a genius and it wouldn't matter. No one will ever know but you." If you're trying to make a point on an internet forum where the ONLY mode of communication is typing, it goes without saying you'll look like an idiot if you can't type. Well, apparently it doesn't go without saying to all of us. So let me say: If you can't type on an internet forum, you look like an idiot.

We don't care about your IQ, or your boy's IQ. Shame on you for bringing your family into the Asylum. The new rules were created just for idiots like you who bring their family into a place where they should never be. If you son was several years older, and typed horribly, then yeah... we'd think he's an idiot too. Again: if you cannot communicate your intelligence through typing in a forum where the ONLY means of communication is typing, then you'll look foolish. Blame it on the medium.


Yeah, no need to apologize. We liked batting you around, since you would rise to the bait.


You too.

Oh, and

woeful. Seriously, use Firefox and the spell-checker on it.

What does this even mean? I assume you don't mean the South African Red Cross organization "Humanity Chain"? And if you mean in the lower half of all humans, well, over 3 billion people are already there. What are you criteria? Are you saying that half of humanity insults children? Where is your proof?

And I spit on your apology. Ptooey. What kind of apology is "Hahaha, you guys were all just guinea pigs in my social experiment! Oh oh OH! I put a disclaimer at the bottom to cover my bases!!"? A craptastic one.

And no, why would I insult your child? At the same time, why would you bring your child into this discussion? You are using him, and I find it abhorrent. To make your point in a post that still seeks to insult others and passes itself off as an apology, you bring up your child and his host of problems... for what purpose? To me, it seemed like it was to create a feeling of pity. So we might go "Yes, little James, YES! Way to overcome your inherent disabilities and succeed where others fail!"?

If your son posted in here, he would be treated as all others are treated; on the basis of how he gets his ideas across. I'm glad your son can succeed, I really am. It's pretty terrible that you put your son forward as a strawman, saying "Look, if my son can be so smart with all these problems, well, I obviously must be great with my IQ of 131. He couldn't get his ideas across with typing, so why heckle me?"

You're using your son and his problems to attempt to demonize posters here. Dude, we demonize ourselves. All you're doing is bringing up a poor boy's issues where they shouldn't be. I'm glad your son is advanced for his age. I hope he doesn't ever post in the Asylum, because he might get his feelings hurt if he's as sensitive as his old man.

In that case, he'd need to take extra time and effort to overcome his disabilities when communicating via a written medium. I suppose it might feel unfair but that's just how it is.But I don't know him. I would only know of him through his writings which, if pathetic ramblings, will lead me to rightfully discard him as useless for my purposes. He's not here: his only output to me is in the form of pathetic ramblings.

My cat might be a mathematical genius. Since all he can do is make mewing noises at me and lick his ***, his potential mathematical prowess is lost on the rest of us. I'm not going to try to learn the tongue of the felines to communicate with him (especially since they use their tongue to lick their own ***) on the off chance that he's really, really smart so it's on MathCat to get his point across if he wants to be considered anything beyond a hairball factory.

It's the Jane Goodall excuse.

Morganne,



Explain to me how someone who can't spell and doesn't understand the proper usage of punctuation can be at the top of his english class?

Jophed,



I blame public (government) education.

They obviously grade on a curve.

Oh you mean Zeta. I'm a regular customer :O

I almost never make a spelling or grammatical error and people still don't take me seriously.


But that's because most of them are twats.

It still didn't catch them all...

Your son may, unfortunately hit a brick wall later on. The SAT in the US (and I believe the verbally based A levels in UK, not completely familiar with those) requires a written test, and one of the biggest things they are checking for is grammar and spelling. It may be the most brilliant paper ever written in the history of mankind, but spelling and grammar will be the downfall of someone who is smart and never bothered to learn to write properly. I've heard horror stories of people who had scores like 750 verbal, 800 math, and 450 writing - they were accepted provisionally to the university here but forced to take humiliating remedial writing classes before they could actually start their coursework.

It isn't just the **** retentive Asylumites. It's the entire educational system. "Reading, writing, and 'rithmetic" still forms the core basis of our judgment of educational aptitude.

Meh, so long as there are brilliant engineers that cannot form a linear thought on paper, there will be technical writing jobs for people like me that can.

HAH!

The way spelling, punctuation and grammar in exams are handled here (at least in college) is that there are limits set.

Our sec II grading system has 15 points (well, from 0-15), with 0-4 points being an F, and 10-15 points being an A as it is in America (British A is 13-15 points). Each grade inbetween has 3 points, pretty much.

If there are more than 2 mistakes per 100 words, the grade is decreased by 1 point. Over 5 mistakes per 100 words, and it's 2 points. Unless you're completely incoherent, spelling etc. cannot have a greater impact than those 2 points.
This does, of course, not apply to foreign language essays.

I think it's great for dyslexics, but on the other hand it's contradicting the concept of German college, as opposed to the English A Levels, for example. You can only graduate if you fail less than 4 courses. To ensure a broad education, many of courses are mandatory. I struggled a lot because I had trouble with Greek and History and had to take two courses each to get my degree. This is not why I failed college, at least it's only part of it, but either way I don't think correct spelling is less important than fUcking Greek.