Posted by bruce in CO on Thursday, January 17, 2002 at 12:46PM :
In Reply to: Re: A question for all forum posters ctxt posted by Sean on Thursday, January 17, 2002 at 0:16AM :
Jon, Don't take Sean's sarcasm in the last post too personally, but his point is valid in picking up on the irony of your misspelling in a sentence having a context related to a school English class! If you intend to use examples of our postings for their technical content, your instructor is likely to point out the large numbers of frequent examples of "bad english" which show up here as misspellings, poor sentence structure, misuse of punctuation & capitalization, and poor grammar. A very interesting approach to your project might include showing how the Internet allows for valuable and personal communication to be both expressed by the writer of a post and understood by the readers in spite of such examples of poor "proper" english. In the broad spectrum of folks who enjoy Dodge Power Wagons, our differences in how we use the english language and how our fingers work on a keyboard can be overlooked, accepted, or at the very least tolerated. In this envionment, its much more common and expected for someone to post correction or criticism in answer to incorrect info relating to PW's than it would be to correct or criticize someone else for their mistakes in english or typing. You could easily compare and contrast the necessity of proper english in a website forum to the standards that should be expected in school or in the workplace. Good Luck with your project. Bruce
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