I've had this argument here before, and I have no intention of repeating the experience. People like you, with but a tenuous grasp of English, are blind to the neologisms, loanwords and - especially in the United Stoats of America - thereby ignore the nuances of the language which have made it pre-eminent in the world.
Your predecessors were too, at one time, "ignorant ethnics", a fact you are too dense to comprehend. Your syntax and general command of the language is appalling, something on which I would not normally comment because you seemingly know no better. I cite "Your point reads to me like you are saying its ok if the usage is wrong, even if it literally does not make sense, as long as enough people in the ghetto use it."
You are betrayed by your use of "your point reads to me...". Plus the lack of an apostrophe and a cretinous belief that English is a black and white language. Have you never marvelled at its ambiguity? Rhetorical question. Ignorance is bliss. Come back to me when you've had more than four decades of professional English and tell me I don't write accurately.
In the meantime, you stupid little fart, grow up and if you must argue with your betters do so on a subject of which you have knowledge.
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I am quite pleased that your factual argument dissolved into a personal attack in a single retort. I must be doing something right. No doubt, its a result of your inherent belief in your superiority, that you totally avoided supporting your own original fallacious argument. I mean, someone with your vast experience could not possibly have made a fourth graders mistake in making a point, right? My faith in rational discourse is not undermined by you though. Your late claim to superiority was not unexpected either. That was quite an irate example of Internet chest-beating at its finest, and to be expected from the desk-chair of an anonymous post. At the least, I can commend you for not challenging me to a penis measuring contest, so something positive can be said of this exchange. In the meantime, you can wring your hands in anonymous anxiety knowing that everyone in this thread is laughing at you and your quite typical forum attack. And yes, you are an example of the typical, not exceptional, in all your ranting here; read your own post again. I read you loud and clear, attack the grammar, do not address the content. I suppose there is an asymptotic relationship between experience and its expression. See, I can couch my point in jargon too, yet I doubt it makes me feel so good as it does you.
You see, I too have had similar discussions before, but the speed with which you resorted to attack is the only thing exceptional about you. You draw down faster than a teenager who is too long between masturbations. Your post can be compared to any teenager ranting and butthurt over being called out on a fallacy, despite your adherence to grammatical form and your inflated self-regard. No doubt, you will be embarrassed about it and delete it tomorrow, so I will quote you for posterity.
United Stoats, I see what you did there. I bet you are 'stroking one out' right now over your own cleverness.
By the way, your written English is quite good.
I still believe. Do you still believe? - Earl Hickey
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bogwart-1
13 years ago
I can assure you that my written French is superior to yours, for reasons I don't feel like sharing. I don't have much written Spanish or German, but I can offer excellent Portuguese and Cantonese.
It's amusing to see the extent to which you have upped your game, but it's all too late, sadly.
I don't know what a fourth-grader is equivalent to here - probably about ten-years old, at a guess. At any rate it seems to be about the age when the average American is obliged to notice that he really is a major doofus. Not that kids in my country are anything to boast about, having absorbed so much Merkin "culture".
There's absolutely no point in indulging in penis measuring contests. I am not homosexual and not interested in the sexual apparatus of other males, and in any case recent worldwide peer research has demonstrated that the average white American male is very average, being somewhat smaller than his peers in Europe.
So after all maybe there is a correlation between IQ size and todger size. Poor little man, no wonder you have problems coping.
That's it from me; I have no doubt you will want to milk the last few drops out, but as usual you're on your own.
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mxlflx
13 years ago
You are correct on one note, I do have problems coping with people spouting fallacies like they are the truth. Penis-size, IQ, the whole country, eh? O wow, I take it back, no way are you 40 years experienced in anything, you ARE a teenager, if not biologically, then mentally, which would make someone your age a retard. I see now, you are European, likely unemployed, on the dole, and sore about your country and its citizens' decline into irrelevance. If the dry wit is any indication, you are British. I see, this is not about me, its about you, your country's current austerity measures juxtaposed to its erstwhile prominence, and your lack of work and declining economy. I get it, I will remove myself from line-of-sight of your self-loathing. Its not so bad, you cannot rule the world forever. Just remember this whole tirade started because you arrogantly believe that 'I could care less', and ' I could not care less' mean the exact same thing. And I could not disagree with you more than I do...or is that I could disagree with you more? Some genius. 'Nuff said.
P.S. 4th graders are 8-10 years old, by the way.
I still believe. Do you still believe? - Earl Hickey
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Jose_Accent_On_E
10 years ago
I can commend you for not challenging me to a penis measuring contest
Along with rejection of romantic overtures made to females, remarks like this are responsible for straight males going gay. After all, who else would hold a ruler perpendicularly to their crotch?
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