Seriously, there are better options than bad English.
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| Author | Content |
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| dinotrac Sep 12, 2009 12:59 PM EDT |
I think. |
| caitlyn Sep 12, 2009 6:22 PM EDT |
I agree, dino. OTOH, complaining to the companies is a great alternative to the more confrontational approach Helios is proposing. Bombarding them with e-mails and phone calls makes sense to me. |
| dinotrac Sep 12, 2009 9:16 PM EDT |
True. Helios runs a high risk of being read the TOS. |
| gnuisnotunix Sep 12, 2009 11:50 PM EDT |
You should contact Best Buy and Office Depot to complain about the way they are training their employees while using perfect English. :o) Otherwise, you will make an excellent protester and you can use perfect English while you are protesting. |
| aronzak Sep 13, 2009 3:40 AM EDT |
You know, the community could also just fix some of the valid issues that Microsoft raises. Like confusion over weather or not users need to apply updates in Ubuntu. |
| jacog Sep 13, 2009 4:37 AM EDT |
What? |
| gnuisnotunix Sep 13, 2009 8:20 AM EDT |
I wonder if dinotrac will call your attention for using weather instead of whether. Or maybe I should send dinotrac an email so he or she can come down here and set matters straight about using the word weather or whether. :o) Remember always obey the rules of English it's the law. But actually I think Ubuntu does a fairly good job with their updating system, although it ain't my favorite Distribution. I just had to throw an aint out their for all the perfect English readers. |
| jdixon Sep 13, 2009 8:44 AM EDT |
> Like confusion over weather or not users need to apply updates in Ubuntu. Since Ubuntu notifies you that updates are available and suggests you install them (even giving some reasons, from memory), I fail to see why there should be any confusion. |
| dinotrac Sep 13, 2009 9:42 AM EDT |
gnu - The site has been corrected, which gives me joy. I don't ordinarily play English/Spelling/Grammar police for a couple of reasons: 1. I'm not exactly outstanding myself, and 2. We have a lot of people who are not native English speakers, and 3. For many things, who cares? It does, however matter out in the great big world, especially when you wish to share hard truths with those who are not your friends. It never pays to look stupid when you are trying to convince somebody else that they are wrong. |
| caitlyn Sep 13, 2009 3:14 PM EDT |
@dino: We seem to be in complete agreement on this thread, a rare thing indeed :) Yes, it's good that the site was corrected. My point about Helios going into stores and challenging what the sales people are saying is confrontational IRL. The danger of online confrontations is relatively small. |
| gnuisnotunix Sep 13, 2009 5:50 PM EDT |
You are correct. And I appreciate having that information brought to my attention. I will probably be working with some tools to check my grammar in the future. |
| tuxchick Sep 14, 2009 10:21 AM EDT |
Yeah, who cares if native English speakers can read and write their own language competently. It's just a bunch of silly grammar Nazis who even care. I'm all for incompetence in everything-- basic arithmetic, typing, driving, walking, talking, eating, getting dressed-- competence is so over-rated. It's so much easier to be an incompetent slob, because that way nobody thinks you're trying to be better than everyone else. That is the biggest sin because having actual skills damages the self-esteem of people who don't know anything. |
| dinotrac Sep 14, 2009 11:29 AM EDT |
TC -- Hey!! My self-esteem is very fragile. |
| gus3 Sep 14, 2009 3:56 PM EDT |
Quoting:Just in time for the Embassy Ball Eliza learns to behave properly as well as to speak properly. The challenge she faces is increased, however, by the presence at the Ball of Nepommuck, a former pupil of Higgins' who speaks 32 languages and is acting as an interpreter for a "Greek diplomatist" who was in fact born the son of a Clerkenwell watchmaker and "speaks English so villainously that he dare not utter a word of it lest he betray his origin." Mah teacherz lernt me t' talk English real good. |
| helios Sep 14, 2009 11:00 PM EDT |
Mah teacherz lernt me t' talk English real good Lernt?.....must be a local dialect thing. The proper term is teacheded h |
| tuxchick Sep 14, 2009 11:12 PM EDT |
I shake my head sadly and return to reading the OED for fun. |
| hkwint Sep 15, 2009 3:45 AM EDT |
Just wondering: Is 'sunked' a valid past participle / English word? Some German put it on my drawing, but I think it's wrong. |
| caitlyn Sep 15, 2009 4:14 AM EDT |
Hans: No, definitely not. |
| jacog Sep 15, 2009 4:44 AM EDT |
Methinks I'll just head off to http://www.icanhascheezburger.com nao...er, now. |
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