Comment by canoebuilder | Hacker News Reader

Comment by canoebuilder | Hacker News Reader

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Call it snark if you will, but it is intelligent, perceptive, witty snark, a rare combination.

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I think it's perfectly reasonable to have people socially pressure others to keep to the agreed upon conventions of communication. (It's kind of what this place is known for.)

If someone wants to do it in a funny way, all the better. Humor wins hearts and minds.

I don't understand the ignoring of basic writing conventions thing. If you think that's going to make your writing stand out, or be more expressive or whatever, you're wrong.

It is less expressive, and it only stands out for being disorienting and unpleasant to look at and read.

Seeing people write like this brings to mind this quote.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Write with the standard conventions, so that what stands out are your ideas, not the reader's effort to piece together your loose ends.

The post is readable to me. I've myself been called out for grammar and I find it kind of useless to be told my grammar is off. If you don't understand my post at all then tell me, otherwise I'm sorry that having English as a second language and not learning it as well as you have is not my top priority in life. I'm also sorry for my bad English, I'm American.

I don't understand your post, or at least the way I understand it I hope is wrong. You basically seem to be trying to win points based on your identity, a popular game these days, but completely out of place in this conversation, and everywhere really.

I think you misunderstood my post, I wasn't bemoaning that everyone's grammar isn't perfect.

I was pointing out that the things learned very early in language education, capitalization and punctuation are learned for a reason. And intentionally omitting them is distracting and detracts from what is trying to be said.

On the other hand, maybe too much importance is given to how the information is presented.

Rather than focus on the content and the ideas evoked, just make a passive-aggresive snark so that you gain useless points by people who couldn't give a crap about the discussion but found the comment funny.

After that, you can just ignore that person's opinions since they obviously are too incompetent to write in proper form.

You learn early on the importance of good language skills, you also ought to learn how to treat people with some respect by trying to ignore the minor things and not showcase them off like you've found anything worth of value.

If you value properly written text over others, fair enough, but don't waste your time and everyone's time by making a comment that contributes to nothing but elitistic egos.

Here, wait, let me type with proper grammar and punctuation on this one.

How depressing it is that the only response to my initial comment is talking about punctuation. My grammar is actually correct, too. Instead of using periods, I hit enter. Instead of capitalizing "I", I used "i" instead because I feel it is quicker, still readable, and unique.

I guess any publicity is good publicity!

> You learn early on the importance of good language skills, you also ought to learn how to treat people with some respect by trying to ignore the minor things and not showcase them off like you've found anything worth of value.

> If you value properly written text over others, fair enough, but don't waste your time and everyone's time by making a comment that contributes to nothing but elitistic egos.

Well said, this is the gist of it. Sometimes it can be tasteful, other times it's like those posts that we try to avoid here on HN such as "thanks", "lol" etc. Posts that just add uneeded noise.

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