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There are always people who are happy to roll in the mire, but I doubt that even you would welcome them into your home afterwards. Everyone makes mistakes, but the sign of an intelligent person is that they do their best not to repeat them - or to set ignorance on a pedestal and worship it.

That's like saying not knowing for sure that a gun will really kill someone is an excuse for murder. Poor spelling and grammar have no excuse, apart from those who aren't native speakers but are trying to improve their knowledge of the language in question. Ignorance in this context is entirely...

Not really: "what had bin written" would merit that, but it was obvious here that you'd simply made a typo. As possibly(?) the only person here to have refereed fencing matches, I'd riposte to that attack with "Off target!" :cool:

¡Yo no hablo americano, ******! 🤠

Nah, m8 - if you wuz REALLY old-skool, yer'd have said "hanged"....

One of the (many) things which get my goat is people who can't/won't spell correctly on the internet; I don't care how linguistically-challenged they may be when it comes to their native language, the magic "Search" buttons on most websites lack a "guess WTF this is supposed to mean" function...

I imagine that you're largely correct about many people not liking to be corrected. :cool: However, when we communicate with others we're usually sending a host of ancillary messages which aren't necessarily visible or audible: tone of voice, facial expression, body language, choice of words...

I think the whole point is that the way a beautiful language is mistreated by many of its "teachers", and massacred by the majority of its users is nothing short of a joke. It's true that it's not a very funny joke - but that goes for many of the "real" jokes here as well.... :D

A nod's as good as a wink.... :cool:

So aural and visual illiteracy, to accompany the oral and verbal varieties - sounds like a clean sweep, doesn't it? I still struggle to convince my class of English learners that "native speaker" and "competent user" aren't even vaguely synonymous these days...:cry:

And seemingly proud of that fact.....:oops:

Why kill a tree just to find a shop? If you want one so much, why don't you just 3D-print a darned carpet? :cool:

Is that supposed to be a USP - or a deal-breaker? :cool:

"This is briefly comprising of...." - so what do you get for your money the rest of the time? :LOL:

My attempt at Dry January last year actually lasted until July - it felt like months......

Yes!

It appears that as a species we just never learn to see, let alone answer, the biggest question. Just because we can do something, does it necessarily mean that we should?

Interestingly, I can get into ChatGPT every time from here - maybe there's some limit for geographic locations?

We might not be able to spot it, but it will undoubtedly make (a little) more sense than the rubbish spouted by the loony left....🙄

If that's a direct quote of the result obtained, it's interesting to note that one of the characteristics shared by AI and what passes for "natural intelligence" nowadays is an inability to spell... :rolleyes: