Oh, I don’t think so. If you think things are getting off track, then what’s wrong with saying so?
Personally, I don’t know enough about the case to say much more than that it’s a damn shame that they got shot down.
-Ben
Poor spelling and grammar are no reasons to not take someone seriously. Good spelling and grammer aid in communication but they need not be perfect. All that matters is that Wildest Bill got his point across. If you spent an hour looking for the country of Purubia in your reference library then I suppose you have a right to be annoyed, but if you knew what he meant almost as soon as you read it, then it doesn’t matter if he spelled it right or not. Acronyms are a far more insidious barrier to communication than slightly misspelled words. If you want to perfect people’s use of the English language for the purpose of communication I would start there. Although even acronyms are not all bad since they can eventually be used in place of the real words until most people do not even know what the real words are (e.g. S.C.U.B.A.–Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus and R.A.D.A.R–RAdio Detecting And Ranging). I bet most people don’t even know that radar is an acronym. I am glad that I can use the word radar instead of radio detecting and ranging, but the use of all acronyms that do not form words (like AARP and ACLU) do nothing but confuse people. I would rather see “Asssoicuation fo da Advencment o Retiered Persuns” than AARP any day. And anyone that didn’t know what the AARP was would at least be able to partake in a discussion that involved the misspelled phrase above.
Thankyou Evilbeth and Procacious
Thanks for your comments, support and common sense.
Some of you other people never cease to amaze me. Yes, I know where and what Peru is. I simple put a “b” where I should have put a “v”(like evilbeth said) WELL EXCUSE ME!!!
I mean I haven’t been on this board in a while & I come back and some of ya’ll are still just as anal as you have ever been. To turn the majority of the thread about a women and her baby being shot down in a fiery furnace into a conversation about how I spell “Puruvians” is just about the most stupidest, lamest and idiotic things I have ever seen and ya’ll call me ignorant? Sheesh. Some of you so called intellectual people need to get some common sense.
December,
You did make a valid point. We would be sueing ourselves and you know what we don’t like to be sued. So what do we do when we have to pay the bill for something we shouldn’t have because of stupidity of our elected officials that’s right we vote’em out next time. What do you suggest? We don’t make any restitution to the family of the victoms we elected these officials to be stupid and kill? That sure shows know accountability on our part wouldn’t you say?
I honestly thought he was being jocular in spelling it that way.
I meant to say, shows “no” accountability on our part. (Before the whole thread goes south again)
Bill allow me to point out that I merely gave you the requested info on the spelling w/o editorializing. sniff.
In the meantime, here’s a suggestion about the problem. Seems that the folks we sent down there to communicate with the locals about what planes were doing what, didn’t speak fluent Spanish, therefore, when the Peruvians were discussing their intended actions, our folks couldn’t understand what they were saying. Ya think that might have been a problem?
Bill – Your point is well-taken. Unfortunately, in practice we citizens don’t vote 'em out, although we ought to. NYC spends many $millions on lawsuits (many frivolous). Lots of attorneys make a very good living by finding “victims” who pretend to have been injured due to a pothole. Bur, nobody holds the city officials responsible. Meanwhile the NYC schools graduate illiterate students.
I wish we would vote bad politicians out of office, with or without a lawsuit…
Wring,
I wasn’t implying that you were one of the people. You just pointed out the correct spelling which was appreciated.
Yea, it seems like it would make sense to send people down there that could speak the language huh?
December,
Your point is very well taken too. I know all too well about the corruption in the legal system. It is a tough problem. I think voting should be made easier somehow so more people will do it.
wring wrote:
If there was ever a more clear-cut case for using Esperanto, I don’t know what it is. 
He spelled it wrong because he heard the story on The 700 Club, instead of reading it in a reputable news source.
Personally, I’d like to see an actual cite to read an unbiased news accounting of the incident. Off the cuff, I’m tempted to say that international incidents happen all the time, and I’m sure the U.S. will make the appropriate token actions against Peru for the infraction.
So, Bill, I’m sure you’d be just as outraged if the U.S. did something equally heinous against a Peruvian national, correct? Even if they weren’t Christian, right?
Esprix
Originally posted by Esprix
Yes. What they did was just wrong. You don’t go around shooting planes down for "suspecting they are carrying drugs. Follow them or scare them if you think they are carrying but don’t shoot’em down.
Now let me turn the question around on you. Are you less upset because it was a Christian instead of a Puruvian national?
A word of advice, Bill-
you aren’t doing yourself any favors with your carelessness. Aside from the fact that you’re embarassing yourself ten times as much by continuing to misspell it even after you’ve been corrected (and, for that matter, heartily mocked,) your continued unwillingness to make an effort to clean up your prose, despite several complaints, shows enormous disrespect to those who try to hold conversations with you.
For the hundredth time: all you have to do is read your post once before you submit, just like everyone else. It will make life easier for us, because we won’t have to decipher your oftentimes heavily garbled posts, and it will make life easier for you, because people will be less likely to think that you’re a moron.
Everybody else takes the time to give their post a once-over. Why should you be the exception?
-Ben
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I believe I’ve already dealt with this erroneous perception in detail.
Incidentally, Bill, where do you get your news? Is Esprix correct?
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Stupider, lamer, and more idiotic than failing to take simple steps to make sure that people won’t make fun of you?
-Ben
I am neither outraged nor nonplussed as I have seen no cite for the details of the incident yet. Off the cuff, and from your stilted point of view, I’d say it was a horrible and tragic mistake, regardless of who was in the plane; I still want more information, however.
So now we’ll protest, they’ll protest, and nothing will change and nothing will come of it - it’s what happens between countries. I hardly think another lawsuit will solve anything except to clog up the international court system. I’m sure someone somewhere along the line in one or both governments will pay a price, but no matter how large or small, it hardly makes up for loss of life, but a lawsuit won’t measure up, either. Would it be crass to use the term “acceptable losses?” Perhaps, but on an international spectrum, they weren’t the first, and they won’t be the last. Got a beef? Call Amnesty International - this is the kind of stuff they do best.
Esprix
Ummm Esprix I linked to a news site about the incident in this thread. (I believe it was an ABC link, may have been CNN) will that do?
“He spelled it wrong because he heard it on the 700 Club”.
LOL
I still say, he should’ve claimed it was intentional to be funny.
Tro prava, frato.
Well, obviously the International Esperantist Conspiracy is out in full force! 
A couple of points:
“Suing the government is actually suing us.” True, but simplistic. The U.S. government does many things in the course of a day, through its agents the military and civil service, the appointed and elected officials of the country. Inevitably, some acts are unjust. For that reason, in our wisdom we have a system in which claims against unjust acts by the government are admitted and judged, first by administrative procedures and then by the Court of Claims. Bill may or may not have a point about our involvement in this incident – I’m not well enough informed to argue for or against it – but if there are grounds to challenge the U.S. government’s complicity in what happened, then the people involved, or their heirs, are well within their rights to sue.
“Purubians” is, I think, an unfortunate typo, but one quite justifiable under the circumstances. Remember that Bill lives on the South Texas coast, with a large Hispanic population. I would venture to guess that the majority of times he has heard the adjective Peruvian used, it was by a person of distinctly Hispanic speech patterns. And I don’t need to remind anybody of the first-year Spanish “ve de vaca”/“be de burro” to draw your attention to the problem of typing something heard with accurate spelling.
Finally, Bill is a man who is not afraid to think, grow, and change. I’ve seen him reconsider “knee-jerk conservative” positions several times when someone pointed out his error without shoving it down his throat. I’d urge laying off the snide allusions to his past foolishnesses; it’s possible he’s quite well aware of the error of something he said in the past that has little or no bearing on the question he raises presently.
Let’s see, maybe he was trying for Cyrillic, oh crap…don’t have a cyrillic keyboard. (B in Cyrillic is the V sound.)
BTW, I doubt the lawsuit would get anywhere…after all, many many many innocents were killed in Latin America by the stupid cruel right wing thugs we put in office.
Thanks for the support poly. Hey you wouldn’t happen to have the pizza parlor site address would you? My computer was ripped off and I couldn’t find them on the yahoo search engine. Thanks.
Come on Guin, give me a break. Besides who cares I spelled it? I will probably never go there (especially fly there).