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.
WikiLove be upon you, Kaiser
- Steven MacGrieves