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Granny Magda
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Message 106 of 318 (450132)
01-20-2008 10:32 PM
Reply to: Message 101 by pelican
01-19-2008 6:55 PM


Re: ????????????????????????????????????
quote:
Many of these posts are condescending and infer inferiority.
  —dameeva
No, they imply inferiority. Common mistake.
Edited by Granny Magda, : Typo.

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Message 117 of 318 (450342)
01-21-2008 4:48 PM
Reply to: Message 107 by pelican
01-21-2008 1:44 AM


Re: ????????????????????????????????????
I think you understood perfectly well what I meant so why the need to correct me, if indeed you did? Haven't you something to say about the condescending attitude and the inferrence {sic} of inferiority?
I normally don't correct people on such matters, where it is not important for the discussion. However, if you are going to complain about implied accusations of ignorance on your part, it is probably best if you don't include stupid mistakes in your complaint. It undermines your argument somewhat.
If you doubt that my correction is itself correct, go and look up infer and imply in a dictionary.

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Granny Magda
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Message 134 of 318 (450412)
01-21-2008 7:34 PM
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01-21-2008 6:09 PM


Re: ????????????????????????????????????
quote:
You didn't answer my question.
Do you mean this question?
quote:
Haven't you something to say about the condescending attitude and the inferrence of inferiority?
You are more than welcome to infer whatever you like. Your inference might even be correct. That is up to you. I cannot control what you might infer from my posts. Your inferences are not my responsibility.
As for the implication of inferiority, I agree with you that an inferior command of English does not imply a that a person is inferior overall. It does imply that they might not be the sharpest tool in the box, but that's not the same thing. Poor English does not necessarily reflect a lack of intellect, or that an given argument is wrong, but it doesn't look good. As a general rule of thumb, it seems that most of the posts on this board which are expressed in semi-literate gibberish are also wrong in their content.
If you want to avoid condescension, it behooves you to avoid making stupid mistakes. The widespread misuse of imply and infer is just a mistake that happens to irritate me. Don't take it personally, but equally, don't continue to make the same mistake, after it has been pointed out to you. That does look bad.
Infer and imply have related, but distinct meanings. Getting them wrong looks bad and just makes your posts that little bit harder to grasp. I responded to you in order to correct your mistake, but also to imply that your complaint about condescension over linguistic errors sounds ironic whilst you continue to make linguistic errors.
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Example: None of you responded to Heinriks' post of one sentence with every word spelled wrong and void of punctuation. He made a very valid point and no-one picked it up. Why was that?
Now you are implying that no-one has responded to Heinrik's garbled sentence because we are unable to understand it. An alternative inference, based on the lack of responses, might be that it was understood, but no-one cared to reply.
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I love the english language.
Then why don't you capitalise it correctly?
I admit that I'm teasing you a little, but you leave yourself wide open to it. Grow a thicker skin.
Edited by Granny Magda, : html fixed

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Granny Magda
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Message 184 of 318 (450702)
01-23-2008 9:56 AM
Reply to: Message 180 by pelican
01-23-2008 8:50 AM


Re: My misconceptions
Heinrik,
Heinrik writes:
How would you know you had misconceptions?
Heinrik then writes:
I would be truly very happy to try and help you with your misconceptions if you would care to articulate what they are.
Do you happen to see a small contradiction there at all?

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Message 215 of 318 (450833)
01-24-2008 9:15 AM
Reply to: Message 206 by pelican
01-24-2008 7:07 AM


Creationist Craziness
Heinrik writes:
Rahvin writes:
Creationists, however, come and attack Evolution from faulty positions, like claiming that, since Evolution predicts monkeys should give birth to housecats, or since Evolution predicts that we should see new life in a peanut butter jar, and both of these positions are false, Evolution must also be false.
ha ha ha. C'mon? They are winding you up and you are falling for it.
Wrong. I have seen both of those arguments made in all seriousness by creationists. The peanut butter claim is especially funny. Try this video for size. It's hilarious. Never underestimate the potential for creationist craziness.

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