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NuevaVida -> RE: Intelligence vs writing (1/12/2012 6:40:02 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Marc2b
The desire, even need, to view other people as less intelligent stems from the human ego. It feels good to "know" that you are more intelligent that someone else, particularly if that person just happens to be on the other side of your political/religious/philosophical views, since it apparently validates your own posistion: "They're an idiot therefore they are wrong and I am right... as usual."
Amen to this. I am always a bit perplexed though, at just how much energy is spent criticizing the way people write. There are all sorts of reasons people might not write well - who am I to determine what is acceptable and what is not (as far as reasoning goes)? Everyone is in whatever place they are in, with whatever education they received, and with whatever motivations they carry. Learning to change a tire is no more a priority to me than Joe Blow's decision to not prioritize the need to write well. To each their own.
We're all ignorant in something. Apparently we only accept those ignorances which are our own, eh?
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ORIGINAL: MistressDarkArt
This one bug's hell out of me too. And for some reason it seem's much more prevalent these day's. So Kali, dear, would you please go feed the horse's, dog's and cat's?
My Daddy writes like this. He misspells an occasional word now and then, but he throws those apostrophes in everywhere. I figure he never learned about apostrophes and has been too busy working two jobs and raising a daughter to research it. Since his jobs do not require much in the way of writing skills, apostrophes have not been his focus.
What I do know is that I am glad I looked beyond that in our initial online interactions (and I did notice them, and they did bug me a little) so I could become involved with one of the wisest, compassionate, hardest working, loving, logical, ethical men I've ever known. Fortunately the poor schooling he received in the economically depressed city he grew up in did not impair his character.
I wonder - - we (generality) revere our sports heroes. Do we think the ones who don't write well are idiots? We throw our money at them by going to games, buying team merchandise, tuning in our TV's...so we're OK with supporting idiots, then? We just don't want to read them?
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