What is the best way to lose an online argument? Misspell common words and use bad grammar.
I can not believe how many people try to get in fights with me (or with others) online, and don't double-check their punctuation, check the caps on their proper nouns, and use the right form of their, there, and they're. Don't these people know that if you're too dumb to write, you're too dumb to win an argument? At least in the eyes of the opposition.
I know not everyone was an English major, and not everyone gives a shit about the rules of the pen, but if someone can dismiss your entire argument with a "well, this person is clearly uneducated" then you're not going to be a very successful douchebag, and should probably do your best to stay out of most intellectual, political, religious, and other arguments online.
Just a suggestion.
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maybe you can assist me with my grammar, an English degree did little to assuage my poor punctuation.
ReplyDeleteBut I thought that if you knew the rules then you were allowed to break them? I can't seem to remember who used to tell me that...
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