Shark 0 #51 October 30, 2003 QuoteQuoteQuoteQuote It's to goad the right wingers into long replies. I figure the time they spend typing reduces the time they can spend making real trouble. Looking at the America in Iraq thread, it seems to me that both sides are equally adept at lengthy replies... Yes, but it's clear that the right wingers have much more difficulty with written English so they still take longer to type their responses. Ah, so true, el profesor... I normally take to sign language to save time. Guess what I'm signing in your direction... I'll let your childish response go unless, of course, you would like to conjure up a clever comment to prover your superior intellect. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,072 #52 October 30, 2003 >Doesn't make the message less valid. It does to an extent. A public speaker who can't pronounce words isn't a very effective public speaker. Sure, there may be cases where the speaker has a mental or physical defect that renders him unable to pronounce the words while the rest of his cognitive abilities remain unaffected. In most cases, though, it's an indication that he simply never bothered to learn the correct pronunciation of the words. Misspellings, poor grammar and all-caps messages dilute the effect of a post. They sometimes even render it incomprehensible. A person who can't express himself well by writing is going to have trouble expressing himself on _any_ forum where writing is the only means of doing so. Having a dictionary available, or even using the grammar and spell-check capabilities of Word, can help get your message across more effectively. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
