Since it’s the thread for it, that comment shocked me.
Apparently I didn’t get a memo or something… So when we discover someone is a single parent we aren’t supposed to notice massive run on sentences that are difficult to follow or make any suggestions on how they might be fixed? Do you think that single parents are somehow less capable than anyone else and that everyone should just acknowledge that? That’s just silly.
That reminds me of when someone on another message board was running around attacking people and then when some people pointed out she didn’t know what she was talking about her friends all freaked out because they were offended anyone would attack someone in a wheelchair.
How does being in a wheelchair, being a single parent, or anything like that affect the content of a poster’s writing? The completely unnecessary coddling and expectations of inferior capability is far more offensive than pointing out a better way something could have been written, even if it was slightly more harsh than it needed to be.
On the one hand, I can appreciate what you’re saying. However, after reading InterestedObserver’s first post in this thread, and then Hostile Dialect’s reply, I looked at Interested Observer’s other posts. Run-on sentences and lack of punctuation are not her usual style. I deduced—perhaps incorrectly—that the content of what she was writing affected her style.
I really don’t see those as the same thing at all. One poorly-written sentence in a longer posting history =/= using disability as an excuse to be an ass.
I believe the point was more of, this person became a single parent within the last four months from losing their partner of 23 years. I don’t think the single parent part had much to do with it as the part of them losing their spouse and their child losing their father. I believe we are allowing people who just suffered a terrible loss to be upset and not nitpick their grammar when they appear to be venting about something that is related to that terrible loss.
That’s the first I’ve heard of that theory. Maybe not the first because I get the feeling that this is a theory a lot of people know of. In either case, I found it very interesting and well thought out(up to but not including your friend being an actual abduction victim). The whole thing makes quite a lot of sense although I don’t believe it as the ultimate truth of our history. Actually I think I don’t believe it mostly because I’m afraid of this kind of thing and not believing it is my self-defense mechanism.
Sadly, I read your post two nights ago - one of the last ones before going to sleep. It caused me more fear than I’d imagine. This is kind of off-topic but do people often fear superficial things like these? I hate it how I find these things really interesting and want to know them regardless of whether I believe them or not but I’m too scared to lol.
After Katrina, some congressman or senator – I don’t remember who – said that New Orleans shouldn’t be rebuilt. As a longtime resident of SE Louisiana, I was ticked off at this ignorant statement. He may have said that New Orleans shouldn’t have been built where it is in such a low-lying area. Fine. By his logic, then when the Big One hits southern California – Los Angeles and San Francisco – then we shouldn’t rebuild those areas because they’re on a faultline.
I think that yours broke down into too many simple sentences. It is easier to read but not as interesting(sentence structure wise, I know that the context remained the same). Perhaps a cross between the two would be good but in the end it’s all not as big of a deal as we’re making it lol.
Interesting how you can actually find a link behind my father’s logic. Perhaps a little more background about him would make it clearer though. My dad is not a politically/historically involved person nor does he have a lot of knowledge/interest in those areas. My family’s Chinese and we live in Canada and he doesn’t even know a lot about Canadian politics/history. With that in mind, he most likely just said something ridiculous without any logic behind it.
Several years ago, I was living here in Ann Arbor. Now, for background, I had recently moved from here from the Bay Area, which is probably the most left-wing and definitely the least religious metro area in the US. Like my entire family, I am an atheist. (As an aside, I am very interested in religion and try to be respectful of other peoples’ beliefs. I expect the courtesy to be returned.) Ann Arbor is almost certainly the most liberal city in Michigan, but I just laugh when I hear people compare it to Berkeley. (No way. I have seen like, multiple McCain yard signs here.)
Anyway, I was working in a boring office as a boring office manager and one of my coworkers - who was INCREDIBLY religious, I mean, if you asked her how she was, she’d respond “I’m BLESSED by the LORD!” - found some way to bring up my own religious beliefs. I told her that I wasn’t religious, and her jaw just about dropped.
“Have you prayed to let Jesus into your heart?” she asked me, and my jaw just about dropped. I had NEVER had anyone witness at me before, and that’s even taking consideration that I took a class in college called Born Again Religion that required we go to an evangelical church service. I stammered something about how I didn’t think that was an appropriate topic for the workplace.
Fast forward a couple weeks. I did a work favor for this coworker, and in response, she wanted to take me out to lunch. Free food! Of course I said yes.
She spent the WHOLE LUNCH witnessing at me. OMG. It was super, super awkward. She had clearly been waiting for a good moment to corner me when we weren’t in the office.
Highly uncool, and I avoided her best I could the rest of the time I worked there.
Sorry, I thought I was taking a chance when I included San Francisco with southern California as I didn’t check a map beforehand. The rest of the post stands.
