--- In [email protected], "seventhray27" wrote: > > Hey Share,
Translation: Hey, Judy,...(but I'm pretending I'm writing to Share, aren't I clever?) <snip> > And along these same lines, it would not occur to me to try > to demean a person who is not a native speaker, because they > make ocassional errors in how they write. Or when I diagree > with them, to use that as some kind of crudgel. For the record (I don't expect you to understand this, Steve), navashok's problems with English go way beyond the occasional errors in how he writes. He frequently bases his arguments and attacks on misunderstandings of what his target has written, and refuses to accept that he could possibly have done so. He often misses context and nuance (although this could be at least partly an intellectual deficit as well as a language deficit). Plus which, his own writing is often incoherent. If he weren't so obnoxious in his misguided attacks, I wouldn't be so inclined to demean him for his lack of fluency in English, nor would I rub his nose in his occasional errors in how he writes. But he needs to feel a lot arrogant about his English skills if he's going to get into big fights; he needs to be aware of how often he misconstrues what the person he's fighting with has written. He's at a disadvantage that isn't really his fault, but he needs to *recognize* this and leave room for the possibility that he gets things wrong because of it.
