[ale] Hollier then God himself

[Michael A. Smith]

Sounds like a useless post to rile someone's nerves.  I saw a similar post
on the enlightenment mailing list.  I wouldn't waste my hand strength on a
repost......

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of marnuke
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 9:30 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Hollier then God himself
>
>
>
> Anitoney:
>
>  Take this message at face value, please.  It comes from my own recent
>  observations
>
>  One of the reasons many people who post occationally are not taken
>  seriously is their awful gramar.  Of course, no one on the
> list expects
>  perfect gramar and spelling  (nowhere close, actually - my
> spelling is
>  pathetic)  But whole posts that have no separation between thoughts
>  (periods, commas, paragraph breaks etc) are very difficult
> to understand.
>  And posts that are hard to understand seem almost insulting.  ("why
>  should I help you if you won't take the time to phrase your question
>  coherently?")  It comes off as disrespectful, as if you
> don't care.  This
>  list survives on courtesy between the people on it, and that
> includes not
>  wasting people's time unnecessarily. Of course, if I can't decipher a
>  post, I trash it.  I'm sure I'm not the only one.
>
>  So, if you want an inteligent answer, post an inteligent
> question, and
>  sound like you care about the answer.
>
>
>
>
> There's nothing that pisses me off more then someone that
> thinks his is so
> much better then the other person but yet can't even do what they are
> talking about their self.   Let's look at above.  It's one long run on
> sectence that has a period where the writer feel it should be but the
> meaning of the period is disregraded and never stoping. I
> guess you would
> call it a rant.
>
> What is really shocking is that you expect people to speak
> perfect english
> when no one can.  Might you wonder why it's like that??  Becuase the
> English took pride in "how well art thou can speak".  It is
> very American
> is discredit that what someone says becuase of the way it was said not
> what they say.  So what if a jap comes up to you and ask you
> a question
> and it's VERY poor english???
>
> What are you going to do?
>
>
>  "Oh I dare not to answer that question for it hard to
> understand & seems
>    almost insulting.  It came off as disrespectful, as if he
> didn't care."
>
>
> So you will turn your back on the man??   Maybe he doesn't even speak
> english??  Why don't you speak his language?? Maybe he has a
> great idea
> but becuase he "doesn't speak as well as you" you will not
> listen to him.
> That seams logical.   How American.
>
>
> /\/\ar/\/uke
>
>
> "You should offer the other man all the help in the world;
> teaching him is
>  the first step."
>
>