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xiphiasOkay. Illiteracy isn't the same as "can't spell." I can't spell. When I remember, I use the spellcheck function before posting, which doesn't happen as often as it should, so it's embarrassing. Illiteracy isn't the same as "poor grammar". My grammar's pretty good, mostly, but I mess up sometimes, and, anyway, poor grammar doesn't bother me.
No, illiteracy is "can't communicate."
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infojunkies, and someone posts a case of a judge ordering a woman (who, truly, shouldn't have kids) to not have any more kids. I comment on it.
And then infuriating levels of illiteracy set in. I mean, c'mon -- I'm wrong a lot of the time when I write stuff. But I like to think that I write clearly enough that y'all can SEE where I'm wrong, eh? I mostly write using comprehensible language, chains of logic that, while they may sometimes be flawed, are at least VISIBLE, points of argument which may be wrong, but which are at least THERE.
I'm not convinced that some of the stuff I'm reading is even English. I had to ask Lis to look over one of the responses, because it LOOKED like language, but I couldn't make it out. I've been having migraines, so I had her check. Just in case I'd had a stroke which had wiped out part of my ability to parse written language.
Because, really, that's what it felt like.
No, illiteracy is "can't communicate."
I'm reading
infojunkies, and someone posts a case of a judge ordering a woman (who, truly, shouldn't have kids) to not have any more kids. I comment on it.And then infuriating levels of illiteracy set in. I mean, c'mon -- I'm wrong a lot of the time when I write stuff. But I like to think that I write clearly enough that y'all can SEE where I'm wrong, eh? I mostly write using comprehensible language, chains of logic that, while they may sometimes be flawed, are at least VISIBLE, points of argument which may be wrong, but which are at least THERE.
I'm not convinced that some of the stuff I'm reading is even English. I had to ask Lis to look over one of the responses, because it LOOKED like language, but I couldn't make it out. I've been having migraines, so I had her check. Just in case I'd had a stroke which had wiped out part of my ability to parse written language.
Because, really, that's what it felt like.
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Date: 2005-01-07 05:19 pm (UTC)There's a good reason why most Rochesterians also subscribe to either the Washington Post or the New York Times for their news.
Sure, my mom gets the D&C, but only for the Sunday coupons.:-)
As for the discussion, well, I'm in total agreement with Yehoshua. I wonder if those people even know what the phrase "attempting to sound erudite" means, since that's the only way to describe their prattle. Sorry you had to go through that. Don't worry, you're points were clear and well-stated, theirs were the convoluted ones.