Really? In this kind of target-rich environment, you figure YOU'RE the target?!?!? Are you READING some peoples' attempts to write on here? There IS still such a thing as a true language, you know. Yes, there are Cambridge (UK) standards and Cambridge, MA based standards, but I'll be toasted and buttered before I adopt the slapdash version of the language used online.
No, YOU adapt. I'm fine where I am. The diminution of the standards of language come at a societal cost, and I happen to believe it is an excessively dear cost, one that I am unwilling to pay. Garden variety typos are one thing, because auto-correct often uncorrects as much as it corrects, and some people operate without any correctional tools. They MUST, because my devices don't even ALLOW me to type some of the things I see on here. So I grant passes for technology differences. But some of the stuff here? Wow! It simply amazes me. Somehow, I have a hard time believing that online boards conducted in other languages are as bad as those that are based here. Go ahead! Try to tell me that you've EVER encountered even one French teacher that WASN'T a snob for grammatically correct and properly spelled French, with all accents and accoutrements present. I'll back off about English when they back off about French.
You are correct about the French teacher. My French teacher was adamant about accent. Although she sounded like she had throat congestion problems. I remember spending extensive time on rolling R's. Two years of French and all I can tell you is I need to go to the bathroom. Oui, oui.
Thank you kindly, sir. My "Englishness", to coin a word, is extremely important to me, even though I am 100% Germanic (Teutonic? Not enough gin?) by birth heritage. I happen to believe that English just MIGHT be (still a thought in process) one of the few types of glue that holds together our country, and every time I see our mother tongue abused, I get genuinely frightened for our future. If this recent trend continues unabated, I will quite literally die trying to emigrate to England.
No, we don't. Hardly, and I feel it is a world that more should strive for. I also understand where Kurt is coming from on shows that don't have programs. I wish more of them did, and when I am lucky enough to be able to attend one that does, you will find me in the meetings and presentations rather than the bourse. Coins I can see and buy anywhere, but a good educational program is something I can rarely attend.
Thank you and Amen, brother. Not that all presentations are winners; they aren't. But the vast majority of them are a far better use of an hour than the "dance of negotiation" at a dealer's table - where potential offers and counter offers are little more than unintentional insults of the other's intelligence and/or integrity. Some people love dickering at a table. I'd rather shove needles in my eyes. When I'm perusing 2x2 box stock and hear some jabronie engaging in the "dance" to excess, I want to bang the dealer's and the customer's heads together like I was Moe Howard and they were Larry Fein and Curley. I hate being exposed to it THAT much.
