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Post by jakebob on Nov 23, 2009 16:45:39 GMT -5
They've learnt a sufficient level of English skills. I was on chat recently, and this is the transcript of what happened on it (note, it wasn't an Omegle chat, this actually happened on Chatango): JakeBob: www.wikihow.com/Use-You're-and-Your JakeBob: odd JakeBob: It's not clickable... JakeBob: www.wikihow.com/Use-You%27re-and-YourStranger: WOW JakeBob: Hm? Stranger: idk that JakeBob: You didn't know the difference between You're and Your? Stranger: yes JakeBob: Wait, just so I can clarify, you're saying that before seeing that article, you had no idea of the difference between YOU'RE and YOUR? Stranger: yep JakeBob: What the hell did you think the difference between the two words were before you saw that article?! Stranger: i thought tey were da same After about three or four minutes, I told him (using some broken English by accident) that I would have to ban him from the internet until he learnt some English, which he took as a serious threat for some reason  Knowledge of the English language should be mandatory if you want to go on the internet. I can understand learners having a hard time, but an eleven year old who tries to blame their English skills on their being french-canadian needs to be kept away from the internet completely until they're 16. |
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Post by Qwerty on Nov 23, 2009 18:08:06 GMT -5
Ah, but some people LEARN English on the internet! Liek meh!
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Post by I am a on Nov 23, 2009 18:32:21 GMT -5
HEY!
That was joey222!
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Post by jakebob on Nov 23, 2009 18:38:42 GMT -5
How do you know? It could've been BoL. It could've been a Xat-ter who wandered onto the chat.
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Post by -M4- on Nov 23, 2009 19:02:19 GMT -5
Those darn Xat-ers... What were they thinkin'...
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Post by xShadowLordx on Nov 23, 2009 19:13:40 GMT -5
You guys seem to be completely forgetting that there are many, many websites based in other countries all over the world, where people speak different languages than English. The internet is a global thing.
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Post by General Veers on Nov 23, 2009 19:47:38 GMT -5
Yes, I would like to agree with The Shadow Lord that the Internet, despite originally having been developed in the American Navy, is a global network that crosses language barriers. No one should expect someone from the Internet to know English unless the user facing the expectations communicates in English to begin with...
Now, if the person "knows" English without really knowing it, just like hundreds of people, then there is a problem. [unrealisticRequirement]Everyone's grammar should be as high as or higher than my own![/unrealisticRequirement]
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Post by jakebob on Nov 23, 2009 20:05:27 GMT -5
I assumed all of you knew that I was chastising the English speakers. If they speak a different language, I don't have much of a beef with that, but it's the people who can't be bothered to learn the difference between words that really annoy me.
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Post by ONYX on Nov 24, 2009 9:47:14 GMT -5
I think I have sufficant English Skills and I'm only 13. I think thats a good enough age and skill. Besides , most of my english skills were purged my english society. Or, Other Societies as well. Typo
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Post by artik on Nov 24, 2009 16:22:16 GMT -5
I think I have sufficant English Skills and I'm only 13. I think thats a good enough age and skill. Besides , most of my english skills were purged my english society. Or, Other Societies as well. Typo Actually.. "I think I have sufficient English Skills and I'm only 13. I think that's a good enough age and skill. Besides , most of my English skills were purged my English society. Or, Other societies as well. Typo" Corrected it  |
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Post by General Veers on Nov 24, 2009 16:47:07 GMT -5
I think I have sufficant English Skills and I'm only 13. I think thats a good enough age and skill. Besides , most of my english skills were purged my english society. Or, Other Societies as well. Typo Actually.. "I think I have sufficient English Skills and I'm only 13. I think that's a good enough age and skill. Besides , most of my English skills were purged my English society. Or, Other societies as well. Typo" Corrected it  How ironic that the "peer editor" cannot edit as well as his argumentative point requires from him... It is quite possible that all of Tiger's typos were intentionally crafted for the sake of irony, in which case these corrections prove futile, but in the case that the typos are indeed mistakes... I think I have sufficient English skills and I'm only 13. I think that's a good enough age and skill; besidesspace deleted, most of my English skills were purged by English society, orextra space removed other societies too. |
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Post by GGoodie on Nov 24, 2009 17:33:46 GMT -5
lol GV toolllldddd yooouuuuu!!!!! xD
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Post by xShadowLordx on Nov 24, 2009 21:17:01 GMT -5
Wow, that's pathetic...
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Post by artik on Nov 25, 2009 15:25:37 GMT -5
Actually.. "I think I have sufficient English Skills and I'm only 13. I think that's a good enough age and skill. Besides , most of my English skills were purged my English society. Or, Other societies as well. Typo" Corrected it How ironic that the "peer editor" cannot edit as well as his argumentative point requires from him... It is quite possible that all of Tiger's typos were intentionally crafted for the sake of irony, in which case these corrections prove futile, but in the case that the typos are indeed mistakes... I think I have sufficient English skills and I'm only 13. I think that's a good enough age and skill; besidesspace deleted, most of my English skills were purged by English society, orextra space removed other societies too.Sorry, I noticed the mistakes after I posted but apparently the modify didn't work >.< Although I honestly didn't know that the ";" had to be there. |
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Post by ROBiT on Nov 25, 2009 21:58:13 GMT -5
I think I have sufficant English Skills and I'm only 13. I think thats a good enough age and skill. Besides , most of my english skills were purged my english society. Or, Other Societies as well. Typo Showing off your proficiency in the language you've been taught your entire life is not the point of this thread |
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Post by Angel on Nov 25, 2009 22:21:30 GMT -5
Neither is trolling, Ozone.
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Post by ROBiT on Nov 25, 2009 23:14:45 GMT -5
Neither is trolling, Ozone. Yes, but then again I've never been one for points of any sort. |
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Post by darkraine on Nov 27, 2009 23:55:08 GMT -5
Neither is trolling, Ozone. Neither is being a killjoy, Archykins. Wanna just end this here? we both know this will just go on and on and on and on. |
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Post by General Veers on Nov 28, 2009 0:27:21 GMT -5
In that case, I'll just conclude with a command to all:
Know your language and prove that you are not an utterly hopeless member of the Community!
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Post by dhoomlord on Nov 28, 2009 3:27:02 GMT -5
Might I ask what this so-called "Tri-force" symbol (i.e. iteration 1 of the Sierpinski triangle) has to do with this thread? I'm afraid that it counts as spam...
-General Veers
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