Well, what else do I have to judge them by, other than how they present themselves on the boards? Before you answer that, I acknowledge that content is more important than presentation, but in a case like the OP’s, there isn’t a lot of content there. It’s basically an observation with no citation or factual evidence to support it. It’s just this one guy’s opinion, and I don’t know anything about the guy except that he apparently doesn’t know what the shift key does. Which doesn’t say great things about his perceptiveness, and in turn damages the argument he is trying to make.
That said, once again, I don’t think that either owlofcreamcheese or yourself are stupid or uneducated because of the way you type. I’ve said repeatedly that I think you both are doing yourselves a disservice by not putting the best possible face on your posts. You’ve said a few times that what you’re interested in are people’s ideas. I’m the same way, but when you type the way you do, it makes it measurably more difficult to understand the ideas you are trying to communicate. It’s not impossible, but it takes a lot more effort on my end to follow what you’re trying to say.
Look, once again I make a very clear distinction between people who mangle the English language out of genuine ignorance and honest error, and those who mangle it out of simple apathy.
I admit, my knowledge of adult illiteracy is extremely limited. But proper capitalization (which, once again, is the ONLY thing I’m complaining about here) is a fundamental of written English. Maybe it works different when teaching adults to read, but when teaching children, the distinction between capital and lower case is made before you teach basic reading skills. As such, I find it difficult to believe that anyone who is literate enough to find this website, register, and make a post is actually ignorant of the rules of proper capitalization.
I’d also assume that someone who made the effort to learn how to read as an adult is interested enough in improving themselves that they would welcome constructive criticism, rather than be insulted by it, as you (rather inexplicably) continue to be.
I’m genuinely sorry to hear that. I have a good deal of respect for you, djf750, if only becase you pointed out to me that I’d been spelling the word “business” wrong for my entire adult life. This may sound cheesy, but everytime I type it now, I think of you. I mean that with absolute sincerity. Thanks to you, I’m just the slightest bit smarter than I used to be.
Again, I’m not judging your intelligence, I’m commenting on how you present yourself on the boards. I genuinely try not to judge poster’s intelligence based on their English skills. Other people are not so charitable.
Really? How nice for you. I’ve never had my IQ tested, because it was my mother’s (and, later, my own) opinion that IQ tests are pretty much meaningless, except in measuring how good you are at IQ tests. It’s my understanding that the psychological community tends towards the same conclusion.
“Emotional IQ”? I’m… not familiar with that term. And, I may be misreading you here, but are you saying that you’re emotionally immature? Sorry, I’m just sure what you mean by this.
Well, I disagree that grammar nitpicks are by definition jerkish, making allowances for presentation and context, of course. And I believe that the moderators back me up on that. Or so I intuit, as I’ve never seen anyone banned for pointing out someone else’s grammar errors. To the contrary, I think that this sort of thing is in the true spirit of the boards, which is to foster knowledge and education. Cecil himself is not above taking the occasional potshot at the more egregious mispellers and sloppy typists who write into him.
