This is An International Forum

[sheltie dave]

Craig, I always chuckle at your posts, as many of my grade and high school English teachers would have grabbed you by an ear if they did not first have a seizure. Even in your typed fractlish, you still make sense.[]

Looking at the posts of he who shall not be named, while he exhibits a poor command of punctuation, tense, sentence structure, and coherent communication processes, he has excelled in his deft command and superlative usage of scorn, slander, abuse, and expletives - language mastery that normally comes AFTER the basics.

Either he who shall not be named is reverse learning a second or third language, or his deft command of certain English abilities parallels such frequent usage in his native tongue.

[thebes]

Thanks for weighing in guys. For me the point of this whole post

was just to serve as a freindly reminder for all of us that certain

sensitivities should be observed. I felt that international

viewers observing that thread might have been put-off by the references

to language, because personaly I think I would have. I know from

my own wonderfull experience here that people are not mean-spirited but

sometimes get a little carried away.

Paulin, again, please be assured that this is in no way an attack on

your post or any other. I certainly understood the thrust of your

thread was completly one of humor. I consider myself to be

a bit of a humorist, and know how fine the line is between funny, and

not-so-funny, having crossed that line more times than I can

count. Although inspired by the MICA thread it was a general

point being made, nothing more.

To illustrate the point of my comments on humor stated above:

"Hey Candians: Can't remember. Is your national anthem "Oh canada!" or

"He's a Lumberjack and He's OK"?

You say I'm a what?! What's a hoser anyway?

Malette, I think the bus will be hitting the road this Friday night.

[thebes]

What this Forum needs is a good 5 watt spell checker.

James

Sorry James it just won't work. First 5 lbs is not enough

heft. We'd have to install different transformers; beef up the

power supply; attenuate the crossover point for the letters K,L and M;

install a p-trap for use between the letters O and P, deal witt

sibilance on S and Z and then dismantle the thing and start over again

because the SET crowd thinks it's not clean enough. And don't

even get me started and E, I and O.

[J.4knee]

Having had the opportunity to live in another country and walk a mile in the non native speaker shoes for about seven years. I cringe when I see someones grammar taken to task when it is obvious they are expressing their thoughts in a language completely outside their native tongue. It is simply rude and obnoxious to engage in this practice. In my opinion if you try to speak to me or convey your thoughts to me in such a manor that you are conveniencing me and conversing on my terms, the bare minimum I owe you is the courtesy to listen and the respect to put forth an earnest effort to try to understand what you are trying to convey.

[Kriton]

In

my opinion if you try to speak to me or convey your thoughts to me in

such a manor that you are conveniencing me and conversing on my terms,

the bare minimum I owe you is the courtesy to listen and the respect to

put forth an earnest effort to try to understand what you are trying to

convey.

Absolutely, you are correct and then some. I only wish my poor

attempts at French on my weekend jaunts from school had been so

successful. However, rest assured, even when I tried to speak the

"non-english" language, I didn't ever feel confident calling any of the

sometimes brusque people I met, "morons" or "liars" - hell, that would

have been the proverbial 'knife at a gun fight' scenario...I would have

been stewed in my own bouillabaisse, so to speak...

Bet you didn't do that either?

K

[J.4knee]

Don't get me wrong you can spot a jerk in any language mine was a more general comment. If we are talking about the esteemed posted e-mail exchange, rudeness and poor manners in lieu of reasoned communication just won't work either, you don't have to call out the English grammar miscues to illustrate the fact some one is just an @ss.

[Daddy Dee]

You say I'm a what?! What's a hoser anyway?

Thebes,

You have led a sheltered life, my friend.

Here you go:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hoser

and for the easily entertained... (like me) http://www.youhoser.com/

[Colin]

Yo, Colter dude, I yam spking Am-erri-can!

(ain't I?)

[:^)]

[dtel]

Raised in Lousiana then moved to Mississippi almost two different versions of english neither is correct, still have not got a grip on it yet.

The Louisiana version is english/french more of one or the other depending on where your at, or where yat.

The Mississippi version is english/ ?/ redneck/hillbilly , not sure yet.

I have ran across people who had so much french mixed in i could hardly understand them , Not real french kind of a cajun french, and anyone that has lived around south Louisiana knows what i am talking about.

Never even brought up the New Orleans way of speaking, it is different .

Not even counting that i didn't have to write a letter or type in 30 years for any job i have had i would be the last person on this forum to judge the way someone types or spells.

[oldtimer]

I've heard'em all dtel. You are right, Cajun is pert near impossible to decipher, kind of like the old man in the movie waterboy.

Colter, if you listen to the end of the song, I think they got it all in there, stuff like the internet, super bowl, etc. (theme song from Team America-World Police, music by Trey Parker) Plus, please get back to me about Matching Tie and Handkerchief, thanks.