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I agree, but its miranda. Let it go and just laugh.

At his point I'd agree with you, but I don't think she's the kind of person who hates over petty reasons like this

Miranda dosn't think I'm dumd, at least I don't think so o.0

As i said, people need to chill the ******** out.

Wrong, one of the reasons I stopped coming on Gaia was because you were extremely confrontational, as you admitted in this message.

And saying I "make" up statistics is a lie, I was relating what I hear people say, not what I saw any statistics on. Assuming I was simply making up statistics is an arrogant way of getting on a high horse about it now.

I'll say it up front to you, I have nothing nice to say about you. Good night, ban me if you want. I'll continue to post here if you don't, I won't post here if you do. It's all the same to me.

La Veuve you know full well i'm normally articulate and intelligent, yes I made a booboo, it didn't call for that response.

I was being mostly facetious in my first response, but Pyro caught me in a particularly exasperated state, that's the only reason I ranted.

Let me give you a little advice Zen. When people cant spell, and you constently criticize, deride, and call them stupid, they tend to just start ignoring you. This is the internet hun, you're going to have to get over the fact that there are people out there who have a hard time spelling as well as you, or using grammer to the degree you think they should. The public school was actualy my problem and why I have a hard time with it all. I literaly went five years with out grammer and spelling. It was only when I started going to a private school that I actualy started learning somethign.

Basicly what I'm saying Zen, if oyu want people to care about you taking them seriously, you have to learn to get over the fact that some of the people on the internet are either a) Still in school b) have a learning dissability c) are victums of public schooling or d) english isn't their first language. Its the ones who can spell but don't bother to and use chat speak instead that you need to get all bent out of shape over.

I didn't knwo till I was fourteen. I didn't knwo the diffrence between they're, there, and their untill I was fifteen. And no, for me its not true. I just tended to ignore people who were grammer natzi's and took the advice of people who were freindly enough to actuaky tell me what i did wrong and how to correct it instead of disparaign me for "hackign aprt the english language", as rare as they are now. SImply because some one isn't as skilled in spellign and grammer as oyu are dosn't make them stupid. Also, illiterate means you can't read and wright. The word used to describe some one who cant read or wright well is "improperly educated" or flat out "uneducated."

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Did I mention the immaturity factor?



a) This is Gaia. You have to be 13, iirc. Someone who's spent eight years in an all-English school should have the language down cold. Decades ago, before my time, grammar was taught, spelling was corrected, and teenagers *did* speak proper English.

b) Such as? Most people I've known with learning disabilities have a much easier time using a computer, including my friend's brother, who can't write. He can use a keyboard, just not a pen. I see people with dyslexia and other aphasias typing clearly all the time.

c) Oh please. The public schools I went to were more prestigious than the private ones in the city. Don't lump them all together.

d) I've spoken to several people online whose first language isn't English. Yes, their grammar is usually shaky and their vocabulary isn't large, but they don't necessarily confuse homophones and misspell every other word. They watch closely what they type--so do I when I'm typing in French--so they don't make fools of themselves.

I stand by my belief that anything worth saying is worth paying attention to and saying correctly.