Twice so far (on the Internet, of course) during this week, I’ve run into long diatribes by people who are so far superior to the rest of us that they feel they need to nitpick and criticize for many posts and paragraphs – all filled with spelling errors and grammatical errors. From where I stand, if you can’t spell “imbecile”, you’re in no position to call someone one. One was a snootyboots complaining about people misusing the english language, appalled in particular because she’s a teacher. Oh, the grammar was atrocious. If she hadn’t gotten so hot and bothered, I would have thought she was a troll. The second was a fellow who got persnickety with someone about how he wasn’t paying enough attention to detail – I mean, how hard is it to run something through a spellchecker, you miserable excuse for a human, he starts, then fills the entire screen with “manditory”, “carreerr”, “asperation”, “perminantly”, “definately”, “personallity”, “sinse”, “implimentation”, “permotions”, “concidered”, “enimies”, “loose” (instead of “lose”, used several times), “consiquences”, “benifits”, “to each thy own”, (Oh, and here’s a good one stuck in the middle “forgive me my misspellings, if any”) “origonating entitys”, “concequential” (note previous spelling. . .hmmm.) “irrelivant”, and “concidere”. He tells the recipient, a moderator and frequent contributor at ModTheSims2, “One day if I ever post one of my careers here you will see that a standard should be at least set at at least a quarter that height.” Ah, so this is the reason we don’t have any way of knowing how superlative a person he is – he hasn’t actually >done< any of the things he’s denigrating by others. But he knows he’s better than the other people who’ve actually done anything, which is why he doesn’t need a spell checker. Heh. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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