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Subject: ed pike
[email protected]    10/25/2001 6:34:48 PM
Whenever I read a paragraph like ed pike's, I can't help but think the person that wrote it is ' illiterate. I never mind misspelling because men generally are not great spellers, however with Spellchecker a person may clean up their writing...but for a supposedly intelligent person that writes to others, to be too lazy to use the shift key to capitalize and properly write their sentences, they, to me, are the laughable people of the world. I belong to a chat room where, believe it or not, a TEACHER thinks it's really cute to write all her prose without capitalizing properly. I certainly am glad my children never had her as a teacher...such an illiterate adult...What precisely are people who write like morons trying to prove...How stupid they are? We are so fortunate in this country to have education offered to all who want to learn; or who have bright enough parents that encourage children to learn; and then have adults like ed pike & teacher-teacher write like morons...What a pity...You people don't teach others anything. So, I've had my say. I certainly feel better. I bet you don't!
 
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Themba    RE:ed pike   10/25/2001 8:54:59 PM
Well considering you taut yourself to be such an expert on the English Language I thought you might find these two poems of interest, and reason for criticism. death(having lost)put on his universe and yawned:it looks like rain (they've played for timelessness with chips of when) that's yours;i guess you'll have to loan me pain to take the hearse, see you again. Love(having found)wound up such pretty toys as themselves could not know: the earth tinily whirls; while daisies grow (and boys and girls have whispered thus and so) and girls with boys to bed will go, r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r who a)s w(e loo)k upnowgath PPEGORHRASS eringint(o- aThe):l eA !p: S a (r rIvInG .gRrEaPsPhOs) to rea(be)rran(com)gi(e)ngly ,grasshopper; By the way just so you know, those are both examples of e. e. cummings work. A well known poet and painter who was a graduate of Harvard, is known best for challenging traditionally held ideas about grammar, punctuation, and syntax. (I must have missed the listing of your published works that are required study in classrooms around the world.) By the way, use of ellipsis dots (…) is to signify an omission of information, exemplify uncertainty, or for dramatic interruptions in a passage. However, you used them six times for nothing more then to frame and add emphasis to your statements, which in fact is a misuse of grammar. In addition, you were highly critical of capitalization yet; your use capitalization after a set of ellipsis dots was incorrect unless you had used four dots to show that the omission had occurred at the end of a sentence, therefore requiring capitalization for the next word. You remind me very much of something Benjamin Franklin once said. “I knew a man so wise he could name a horse in nine languages, yet so ignorant he bought a cow to ride.” Maybe if you abandoned your arrogance for just a moment you would find that you could learn something from others.
 
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Themba    RE:ed pike   10/25/2001 8:55:23 PM
Well considering you taut yourself to be such an expert on the English Language I thought you might find these two poems of interest, and reason for criticism. death(having lost)put on his universe and yawned:it looks like rain (they've played for timelessness with chips of when) that's yours;i guess you'll have to loan me pain to take the hearse, see you again. Love(having found)wound up such pretty toys as themselves could not know: the earth tinily whirls; while daisies grow (and boys and girls have whispered thus and so) and girls with boys to bed will go, r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r who a)s w(e loo)k upnowgath PPEGORHRASS eringint(o- aThe):l eA !p: S a (r rIvInG .gRrEaPsPhOs) to rea(be)rran(com)gi(e)ngly ,grasshopper; By the way just so you know, those are both examples of e. e. cummings work. A well known poet and painter who was a graduate of Harvard, is known best for challenging traditionally held ideas about grammar, punctuation, and syntax. (I must have missed the listing of your published works that are required study in classrooms around the world.) By the way, use of ellipsis dots (…) is to signify an omission of information, exemplify uncertainty, or for dramatic interruptions in a passage. However, you used them six times for nothing more then to frame and add emphasis to your statements, which in fact is a misuse of grammar. In addition, you were highly critical of capitalization yet; your use capitalization after a set of ellipsis dots was incorrect unless you had used four dots to show that the omission had occurred at the end of a sentence, therefore requiring capitalization for the next word. You remind me very much of something Benjamin Franklin once said. “I knew a man so wise he could name a horse in nine languages, yet so ignorant he bought a cow to ride.” Maybe if you abandoned your arrogance for just a moment you would find that you could learn something from others. "My I feel so much better!"
 
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Elanor_G    RE:Themba   9/26/2005 1:16:43 AM
Honestly, Themba, do you really have to be so critical of others? I think someone was being a little too defensive. Well, honey, I guess you will get what's coming to you, and maybe I can be of some assistance. If you want to prove a point on how educated you are, here are some tips: Don't spell "taught" T-A-U-T, Use apostrophes tho show possesion (Cummings' work), Don't start a paragraph with two introductory phrases ("By the way" and "just so you know") without adding some sort of punctuation separating the two, Don't start different paragraphs with the same phrase and actually use transitions ("By the way"), Don't copy and paste from other sites, or, if you didn't, you could at least add a pronoun or Cummings' name after "Harvard," and before "is", Don't confuse the words "then" and "than" ("nothing more then" should be "nothing more than"), Punctuate sentences with conjunctions correctly ("capitalization yet;" should be "capitalization, yet"; "incorrect unless" should be "incorrect, unless"), and Introduce a quote with a comma or semicolon, not a period ("said. 'I" should be either "said, 'I" or "said: 'I"). I also found other errors that could be deemed otherwise depending on who is judging. Maybe if YOU abandoned YOUR arrogance for just a moment, you would find that you could learn something from YOURSELF. I hope that this reply is the end of personal attacks. All who would like to critique my grammar, go ahead, but if you do, you missed the boat so-to-speak. Funny, that does make me feel better :) P.S. Themba, I hope you don't take this too personal, I am just trying to make a point.
 
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