subrosaDom
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When people are able to write to try hard to make good impressions with the audiences to communicate, with and writing, is hardest for smarter people, they are smart and inside of brains, but they might not always to choose the write word that doesn't mean they aren't intelligent.
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Not very clear, is it? Sure you can exclude commas, use slang, inject a bit of patois now and again, but if no one knows what you are talking about because you lack a fundamental ability to logically express your thoughts, then you aren't intelligent (excepting neuropsychological disorders). My "sentence" above proves that. It took me quite a while to write that because forcing myself to write incoherently, illogically and ungrammatically required effort. It's antithetical to clear thinking. (And, yes, I've read writing as bad as what I constructed above.)
No its not clear and I may find myself asking why.
Could it be a foreign speaker?. I know that I've made a pretty big fool of myself in with the written word in French. I also know what its like living in a foreign country and struggling with the language. I know how it feels to be teased about those difficulties.
Perhaps its lack of education. Plenty of kids, at least here in the UK, slip through the net because of environmental or personal problems. If they aren't stimulated mentally as children, they will have difficulty as adults, no matter how hard they try.
It could be that they have a learning disability. Perhaps its something common like Dyslexia or is it because they were oxygen starved at birth or had a brain injury later in life?. The thing is, I don't know their history and because I don't know their history, I have no right to point out to them that they are stupid. Will pointing this out change them? will it make them go away and try harder? of course it won't.
How can we mock and throw accusations of laziness at people we don't know?
Unlikely to be a foreign speaker. They tend to misconjugate verbs, leave out articles, sometimes change the order of parts of speech (because the order is different in others languages -- e.g., Blue dish on table you please get for me. I specifically excluded neuropsychological matters, and dyslexia, alexia, any aphasia, really, constitutes such. What I wrote was, by and large, gibberish. No one speaks or writes like that. Why? Because under any grammatical system, it is illogical. An uneducated person might ("might," because an educated person could say this, too) say:
Everything going on in the world. Such a downer, making me sad. I feel like it is just wrong somehow.
An educated person (or perhaps a pedant) might say:
This raft of homicidal maniacs call ISIS, jingoistically believing they assert and deserve sole dominion over Earth itself ... I have passed through uninterest, lassitude, and disgust to arrive at a state of perpetual melancholia, the apocalypse arisen today.
While there's more to chew on in the latter, the point is both are understandable: everyone can understand the first one, while most people get what the second one is saying (but only a few fully understand it without a dictionary). Lack of education, foreign diction, etc. don't usually undermine comprehension. Once you get to that stage, as in my example, then yes, there are in almost all cases significant deficits present in critical thinking, intelligence and reasoning ability.
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