The Most Indecipherable Dopers.

[Lemur866]

@Darren_Garrison

There are some posters for whom English apparently isn’t their first language who Capitalize Words inside of their sentences in seemingly Nearly Random ways. Not exactly undecipherable, but it Looks like they Learned English from a Style Manual written in the Fifteenth Century, and it is Quite Distracting, at Least for Me. (Example.)

We can cut the German speakers a little slack.

[GIGObuster]

@Shodan

Thanks for the links, but I did a quick search of your posts. I’m sure we will all be astounded to see that the large majority were about the Paris accords, why Trump is bad (for pulling out of the Paris accords), did the Paris accords disadvantage the US, and so on.

Look, we get it. You have the hammer, and everything sure looks like a nail.

Regards,
Shodan

From the link:

Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.

And you are still wrong:

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php?searchid=14206037

Just in case the search function is giving no matches to others not making a particular search: I did make the search to a year ago and all older posts to show how your point is indeed ridiculous. Nowadays, the weaponized ignorance is coming from Trump and the Republicans, so it is normal that a lot is geared towards them in the current year, but even in the current year I have not done just that. So thank you at least for demonstrating to all how your blinders are set.

[Ambivalid]

Ok, mea culpa. I erred in selecting Gigo over someone like Dropzone. Dropzone is a much more confusing doper.

[Ambivalid]

@Riemann

Leo is one of the board members that I’d most like to meet, because I honestly have no idea what to expect.

I think he probably has some interesting things to say, but it’s such a struggle. I get the idea that he takes pride in his writing style. It’s unfortunate that he seems so utterly lacking in insight into how incoherent it is. He gets very snippy when it’s pointed out.

Anwyway, what on earth is “see query” supposed to mean?

My guess about the “see query” thing is that he’s saying “see question in thread title”? I don’t know, that’s my guess at least.

[WillFarnaby]

@GIGObuster

As others pointed out, there would not be much of a need to counter that bit of ignorance, but there are many that fall for misinformation nowadays. As I have more experience with history and social sciences the meta point here is that a lot of that ignorance I have to counter does come from the support that powerful interests are giving to climate change deniers out there. Support that goes all the way to the level of helping with untold millions to their election to congress too.

It is no wonder why an item that is comparable to the denial of evolution (that I have also defended many times in the SDMB) is being push up constantly. Such attacks on education are so prevalent these days that groups that before defended educators against the opponents of evolution had to add the defense of the teaching of climate change to their mission; because many of the deniers out there are the same as the deniers of evolution or they employ the same tactics as creationist and IDs use.

Wait, you think more powerful interests are arrayed against climate change legislation than for it? That kind of explains your bizarre tone when it comes to climate change legislation. Calm down buddy, your side is much more powerful unless you discount every government and regulatory body in the worlds most industrialized nations.

[Ambivalid]

Also, i misspelled indecipherable in the thread title. Can I ask a mod to modify it?

[Spice_Weasel]

@Lemur866

We can cut the German speakers a little slack.

<hijack>

What other languages capitalize nouns besides German? Just curious how common it is.

[Gatopescado]

@dropzone

Harumph! My posts are very linear, within a generous definition of a line.

Line of coke, maybe.

[madsircool]

@Gatopescado

Line of coke, maybe.

Give Dropzone a harumph!!!

[Riemann]

@Ambivalid

Also, i misspelled indecipherable in the thread title. Can I ask a mod to modify it?

I think un- and in- are both still acceptable.

Google ngram

Un- used to be the more common variant; I’m not sure what the explanation is for the steady change over the last century.

[Lemur866]

@WillFarnaby

Wait, you think more powerful interests are arrayed against climate change legislation than for it? That kind of explains your bizarre tone when it comes to climate change legislation. Calm down buddy, your side is much more powerful unless you discount every government and regulatory body in the worlds most industrialized nations.

Yeah, the all-powerful leviathan states of the world just want to crush the defenseless energy industry for…what was the reason again?

[Guinastasia]

usedtobe often comes off as rambling and incoherant.

[Ambivalid]

@Guinastasia

usedtobe often comes off as rambling and incoherant.

Good one.

[wolfpup]

@Shodan

Look, we get it. You have the hammer, and everything sure looks like a nail.

I don’t think you understand what that expression means, or if you do, you’re using it wrong. It means to try to solve problems with familiar or readily available methods even when they’re not appropriate. Having a sound background in climate science doesn’t lead one to inappropriate actions. Ignorance does. Like yours, and that of your fellow Republicans. And WillFarnaby down here:

@WillFarnaby

Wait, you think more powerful interests are arrayed against climate change legislation than for it? That kind of explains your bizarre tone when it comes to climate change legislation. Calm down buddy, your side is much more powerful unless you discount every government and regulatory body in the worlds most industrialized nations.

You mean like the awesome actions taken by the Trump regime to address climate change? Or that of the Bush/Cheney regime? Or even Obama’s relative inability to do much about it, the failure of the 2009 Copenhagen climate talks, or the relative weakness of the Paris accord, because almost no government has the guts to take a stand and actually commit to decisive action? Would that be the kind of “powerful interests” you’re talking about? Which are all scared shitless to do anything because every fossil fuel interest on earth, every heavy industry and most of the others too, have politicians bought and paid for who know which side their bread is buttered on, and half the public is against climate action because they’ve been brainwashed by the most extensive saturation lobbying in the history of underhanded PR. Yeah, I think the problem is you’re fucking delusional.

[Dewey_Finn]

Is this thread going to be sidetracked by a discussion about climate change? Aren’t there enough other threads for that?

[Scumpup]

Margarine hat.

[Riemann]

@wolfpup

I agree with the first two, and the order is correct. Watchwolf is (to me) actually the more annoying because of his propensity to get facts wrong and/or to be grossly illogical, but you can’t beat Leo Bloom for sheer incomprehensibility.

There is no reason to have GIGObuster on that list. GIGO’s posts are not just comprehensible, they’re invariably well researched and well cited. That the writing style is that of someone whose first language is not English is an unremarkable fact that does not warrant ridicule, and if you think it does I’m afraid that reflects more on you than on GIGO.

I don’t usually hang out in the threads that GIGO participates in, but this prompted me to read some of his stuff. I’d just like to wholeheartedly agree with wolfpup, he doesn’t belong on this list.

@Shodan

…Likewise with GIGOBuster. It’s always about global warming, and he’s against it…

Ok, to let’s say you’re right, and we have a poster whose schtick is to take the trouble to write extensive well-referenced posts to counter the tiresome and repetitive disinformation from climate change denialists. Would you respect him more if instead his schtick were to write a dumb catchphrase at the end of every post ad infinitum, ad nauseam?

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

@Guinastasia

usedtobe often comes off as rambling and incoherant.

You can always understand what usedtobe is saying, though. It’s incoherent on merit, not because of the phrasing, if you see what I mean.

[Ambivalid]

@Really_Not_All_That_Bright

You can always understand what usedtobe is saying, though. It’s incoherent on merit, not because of the phrasing, if you see what I mean.

I don’t know, he has posted some pretty odd rambles. It often seems as though he is having a dialogue with someone who the rest of us can’t see.

[steatopygia]

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