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No wonder you can't spell or use proper grammar. Clearly, you're still working on mastering counting on your fingers.

You missed a "t" and improperly capitalized another.

Quit babying him even if he is a Republican.

Oh, goodie. You found another finger. Congratulations! You can almost count as high as my two and a half year old.



No, the reason I have no response to your original post is because I have not read it. The reason I have not read it is that you have yet to demonstrate to me that you have taken the care and effort to make it worth my while to read it. See how that works? If you want my attention, you need to first demonstrate that you're worthy of it.



I have never made any such claim. I make the occasional typographical error, and sometimes I'm too rushed to proof-read. However, when I do so, I

1) attempt to edit and correct it as soon as I catch it, and
2) make no demands of my readers that they trouble themselves to put more effort into reading and responding to the post than I did in composing it in the first place.

Furthermore, using "their" when you mean "they're" is NOT a typo--especially when it's done twice within the space of a few paragraphs which happen to be littered with numerous other errors of spelling, sentence structure, punctuation and capitalization. Typos are a simple case of the fingers not carrying out the brain's intention. Misusing a word repeatedly is either ignorance or laziness. To which trait would you prefer I attribute it? Either way, it does nothing to instill in me any sense of confidence that reading or responding to your posts is a valuable expenditure of my time.

Let's take this sentence as an example:



Let's try reading that again there, champ. Now, having done that...seriously? SERIOUSLY? This is the sort of text with which you try to argue that your original post is worthy of reading and responding to?

I'll hazard a guess that what you were TRYING to say went something like this:

Are you really claiming that at no time on this board have you ever used the wrong word in error [redundancy eliminated]?

In that one sentence, you made one possible typo, but the rest of the sentence was atrociously constructed and clearly not proof-read. It was either written from a place of ignorance, or from a place of laziness. Take your pick.

If that sentence, and many others you have provided herein, are examples of what I can expect to find in that wall o' text with which you launched this thread, WHY should I trouble myself to read the initial post, much less respond to it?

So I say, yet again: if you don't care enough about what you're saying to write it well, why should I care about it at all?

Don't offer me last week's destined-for-the-garbage leftover tuna casserole and expect me to respond as though it's a freshly grilled mahi-mahi fillet.

Edit to add: Damn. Now I'm hungry.


Edited, Jan 3rd 2010 10:00pm by Ambrya

That's a laughable assertion. And yes, in the way you described it is completely racism.

'Cept Asians.

Thief tries so hard.

This.

I don't always, but the their/they're thing is a pet peeve.

No joke. There/their/they're is srs bizness, yo. It's one of those very basic bits of linguistic knowledge that, when used incorrectly, makes an educated person's eyeballs bleed.

White people should be the ones lowering property value. After all they are the ones who seem to be more prone to burning crosses or the occasional Jew on someones lawn.

Not to mention they have a higher chance at becoming a Conservative, which is like being more probable to become a progressive vacuum; sucking in any progress colored/homosexuals/non-christians/females make and emptying it out into the trash bin later.

Well, you could always get your Neighborhood Association to put nooses up in everyone's front yard to keep the darkies out. Maybe hold White Pride parades every Sunday.