Robert
Pseudo-academic, pseudo-egalitarian nonsense. That's the same kind of talk that has damaged the education of much of the inner-city youth in America.
Robert, if noone else will say it - I will. Youre so full of crap. Thank you very much for listening.
Frankly, it is also racist in effect. This kind of attitude has created two generations of poorly educated Hispanic and Black youth in American cities. I couldn't think of a better plan for the KKK to promote if they want to keep racism alive forever.
God, what horrible garbage.
And frankly, many of our articles are being damaged by people with good intentions, but who have poor English reading or writing skills (or both.)
Oh, God, what a crapload.
In Stevertigo's bizarre universe, it is egalitarian to encourage this illiteracy, which in the end would produce unreadable articles. In our universe, we are trying to ecudate an English speaking audience.
Well, cutting through all of Robert's crap - the one VALID point he makes (underneath all the crap, acrimony, etc...) is that a common language should'nt go willy nilly in different directions. But it's fucking elitist as tea-sipping lessons to dictate what is "proper" in most contexts - because you personally dont own it - whether it be a religion or a language.
Americans and Englishmen are a minority of English speakers. Toby(I think) made a valid point that there is already a page calling attention to pages in need of a rewrite - the problem is that people do what they are interested in. (And most pages are in need of a "rewrite" - whether its a complete hack job - or a little comma is missing somewhere.)
If people with little teeny tiny sphincters want to take it upon themselves to focus like a lynch mob on poor, unsuspecting Bengalis, fine. But dont bitch when I pull the hoods off your heads. Wanna correct the bad English? - DO IT. But dont come here talking about instituting ideologies that are fundamentally elitist.
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