Wisam Raad:
You are bringing excess baggage with you to our thread.
I reviewed recent posts here, and nowhere do we claim an inability to understand others because of poor grammar, spelling, or typos. Rather, I believe the premise of the thread is that one's personal language reflects more about that person than just the thoughts contained in the utterance in question. For example, sending a stinging post reading "Your totally wrong, Sowbug" says almost as much about the author as it does about what the author thinks of me.
Yes, you're right, it's rude and distracting for Internet participants to allow discussions to degenerate into spelling wars, but what happens here is the antithesis of that. We debate grammar questions here; that's the subject of this thread, nothing more. I haven't seen any regulars here go out to the rest of SI and act as self-appointed Grammar Police. In fact, an implied purpose of this thread is to avoid that sort of thing by confining grammar issues to this area.
I challenge you to find any overlap between regulars on the SI Grammar thread and the "internet language police" that irk you. I especially challenge you to find any disrespectful or abusive posts here or evidence that our motives are "to insult, or . . . improve their opinion of themselves." If we have an agenda, it isn't to force others to accept our idea of standard English; rather, it's self-improvement, which really isn't anyone else's business but our own. |
