Literacy in this newsgroup (Electric hedge trimmer thread)

gparr · 2004-05-04T14:06:24+00:00

Extracted from the 'Electric hedge trimmer' thread:I don't do it often and it's regrettable now, but I've finally decidedto invoke the power of the kill filter. Can anybody here understandthis garbage without spending five minutes trying to decipher allthese meaningless words? Do you disrespect us all so much that youcan't be bothered to READ and correct what you have written beforesending? I can't believe that you have a learning difficulty and asound reason for this appalling illiteracy. The odd typo and spellingmistake here and there is common and acceptable, but this amount isjust plain bone idleness and disrespectful to everybody else. Big noises are made about top posting, crossposting and all sorts ofother crap, so why hasn't anybody complained about all the extra timewasted trying to work out what point, if any, that you are trying tomake? Even foreigners struggling with English in our newsgroups put upa better effort than this. I have no complaints about any of the advice or comments that yougive. It has become just too damned difficult to read.

May 04, 2004 40 Replies

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Owain 22 years ago

"geoff" wrote | >Wlehs. | How did that final "s" get there?

Because I'm bilingual - illiterate in two languages!

Owain

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