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Logic is probably about as common as common sense, i.e. not at all.
Cynical Graham out.
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Although given some scenarios ....
1. Helpful person with questionable grammar skills from a poor education but knows their stuff.
2. Arrogant prick with a grammar school education who can be eloquently rude without being remotely helpful.
Whilst standards of grammar matter to a degree, a willingness to be helpful is what matters more on forums, you can correct grammar but a poor attitude, there is nothing education can do about that.
What irritates me more is the inability to use either the search or google and that's neither age or grammar skill dependant
1. Helpful person with questionable grammar skills from a poor education but knows their stuff.
2. Arrogant prick with a grammar school education who can be eloquently rude without being remotely helpful.
Whilst standards of grammar matter to a degree, a willingness to be helpful is what matters more on forums, you can correct grammar but a poor attitude, there is nothing education can do about that.
What irritates me more is the inability to use either the search or google and that's neither age or grammar skill dependant
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From: Lincolnshire Wolds
Although given some scenarios ....
1. Helpful person with questionable grammar skills from a poor education but knows their stuff.
2. Arrogant prick with a grammar school education who can be eloquently rude without being remotely helpful.
Whilst standards of grammar matter to a degree, a willingness to be helpful is what matters more on forums, you can correct grammar but a poor attitude, there is nothing education can do about that.
What irritates me more is the inability to use either the search or google and that's neither age or grammar skill dependant
1. Helpful person with questionable grammar skills from a poor education but knows their stuff.
2. Arrogant prick with a grammar school education who can be eloquently rude without being remotely helpful.
Whilst standards of grammar matter to a degree, a willingness to be helpful is what matters more on forums, you can correct grammar but a poor attitude, there is nothing education can do about that.
What irritates me more is the inability to use either the search or google and that's neither age or grammar skill dependant
3. Person with questionable grammar and who doesn't know their stuff, but rushes into print with questionable advice and opinions.
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Erm, no I think that is a little over simplified. There are those on this forum who have the capacity to (intentioanlly or not) irriate others who are colloquial and robust in thier views.
Actually please put this in the past tense as the effort seems to have got to us all; so we are currently lying down in a darkened room with a cool flannel pressed to our brows awaiting the spring to bring something different.
Actually please put this in the past tense as the effort seems to have got to us all; so we are currently lying down in a darkened room with a cool flannel pressed to our brows awaiting the spring to bring something different.
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From: Market Harborough, Leics.
Although given some scenarios ....
1. Helpful person with questionable grammar skills from a poor education but knows their stuff.
2. Arrogant prick with a grammar school education who can be eloquently rude without being remotely helpful.
Whilst standards of grammar matter to a degree, a willingness to be helpful is what matters more on forums, you can correct grammar but a poor attitude, there is nothing education can do about that.
What irritates me more is the inability to use either the search or google and that's neither age or grammar skill dependant
1. Helpful person with questionable grammar skills from a poor education but knows their stuff.
2. Arrogant prick with a grammar school education who can be eloquently rude without being remotely helpful.
Whilst standards of grammar matter to a degree, a willingness to be helpful is what matters more on forums, you can correct grammar but a poor attitude, there is nothing education can do about that.
What irritates me more is the inability to use either the search or google and that's neither age or grammar skill dependant
Text speak or a total lack of effort in posts do though.
If you want a constructive and helpful reply, at least make the effort to explain what help you want in a reasonably legible manner.
Oh, and accept it when you're told that text speak is not acceptable on this forum.
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From: Lincolnshire Wolds
Grammar is not an issue, it is easy to make punctuation mistakes and it can be a minefield. Lack of effort and basic laziness (for example, of instead of have, their and there used randomly) are not excusable and show more than just a lack of ability. Excusing this because the poster is being helpful is symptomatic of the "no criticism" culture people have been raised in.
If you want examples, I refer you to the main forum.
If you want examples, I refer you to the main forum.
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And tack onto that ....
4. People who blindly follow the advice of total strangers on a forum without first qualifying that advice with the advice found from relevant search results..
Everyone ( even the experts) is a stranger at first and therefore all advice/opinions should be treated as questionable until reliably proven otherwise.
Guess we're back to common sense again
4. People who blindly follow the advice of total strangers on a forum without first qualifying that advice with the advice found from relevant search results..
Everyone ( even the experts) is a stranger at first and therefore all advice/opinions should be treated as questionable until reliably proven otherwise.
Guess we're back to common sense again