Got a Doubt ! Wanting for your Help ! Plz make it ASAP !

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 27 November 2013 07:44:18 rusi did opine:

> On Wednesday, November 27, 2013 7:41:54 AM UTC+5:30, Ned Batchelder 
wrote:
> > On 11/26/13 8:26 PM, Rick Johnson wrote:
> <Classic Rick Rant>
> 
> > And will you be here to explain to time-travelling Shakespeare why we
> > are all of us speaking English completely wrong (to his ears)?
> 
> And to my (Indian!!) ears when Tim says 'plank in the eye' where King
> James says 'beam' it does not cut it.

And around here, when something comes out correct, it is "better than a 
poke in the eye with a sharp stick" if you want to say it in the local 
idiom.  I used to have a B.I.L. who was always claiming "it was good enough 
for the girls I go with".

I think we, who have American English as our first and only language, 
should be giving allowances for the local idioms where the poster may be 
from, and really try to understand what the other posters mean when their 
unfamiliarity with what each of us might define as proper English might 
result in some ambiguity of our understanding of the question.  If after 
careful re-parsing of the statement, I still haven't understood it, then I 
am not allergic to asking for clarification IF I CAN CONTRIBUTE.  Otherwise 
I sit here and lurk, hoping to learn.

But in no case do I think we have a right to berate the original poster, 
who may not even speak the internet's default language, and may be looking 
up every word in a translation aid book, and doing it both ways to read 
what we might have written in response to what he/she posted.

Someone doing that, is in fact making 200x the effort to communicate 
compared to me.  We should be willing to deal with it, and do our best to 
return the favor.

We aren't doing that at all well when we start a week long thread over a 
miss-spelled word, which while humorous to some, are really nothing but 
contests to see who can come up with the next multi-syllable but totally 
meaningless word.  Its not humorous to those who are making the effort to 
communicate with those of us to whom some dialect of English is the first 
and only language.  Contributing to the confusion should not be the object 
here, but I think that is what we are doing by such action/reaction.

Cheers, Gene
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