Stephanie Zvan is one of the hosts for the Minnesota Atheists' radio show and podcast, Atheists Talk. She serves on the board of Secular Woman. She speaks on science and skepticism in a number of venues, including science fiction and fantasy conventions.
Stephanie has been called a science blogger and a sex blogger, but if it means she has to choose just one thing to be or blog about, she's decided she's never going to grow up. In addition to science and sex and the science of sex, you'll find quite a bit of politics here, some economics, a regular short fiction feature, and the occasional bit of concentrated weird.
Oh, and arguments. She sometimes indulges in those as well. But I'm sure everything will be just fine. Nothing to worry about. Nothing at all.
Critiquing someone’s poor writing is a no-win situation unless you’re a teacher.
But that doesn’t mean you have to respect a cretin or his opinion. You can tell a cretin that his inability to write shows that his view is a worthless as he is, without resorting to correcting it. It can also be an opportunity to ridicule them:
Cretin: “your a moron”
You: “Are you telling me that your my moron, that you belong to me? I don’t want you.”
Or to ridicule their views even when spelt correctly:
Cretin: “In christ” (as a closing to a post or email)
Me: “So you’re still fucking the corpse?”
The morons who cannot spell correctly can be “grammar nazis” as much as anyone. I’ve lost count of how many idiots try to “correct” me for words like spelt, dreamt, colour, grey, centre and or using phrases like “I haven’t any” instead of “I don’t have any”. I’m not being “high brow”, that’s how I was educated.
I can be erudite to the point of being pedantic.
That never happens to anyone around here. 😉
Critiquing someone’s poor writing is a no-win situation unless you’re a teacher.
But that doesn’t mean you have to respect a cretin or his opinion. You can tell a cretin that his inability to write shows that his view is a worthless as he is, without resorting to correcting it. It can also be an opportunity to ridicule them:
Cretin: “your a moron”
You: “Are you telling me that your my moron, that you belong to me? I don’t want you.”
Or to ridicule their views even when spelt correctly:
Cretin: “In christ” (as a closing to a post or email)
Me: “So you’re still fucking the corpse?”
The morons who cannot spell correctly can be “grammar nazis” as much as anyone. I’ve lost count of how many idiots try to “correct” me for words like spelt, dreamt, colour, grey, centre and or using phrases like “I haven’t any” instead of “I don’t have any”. I’m not being “high brow”, that’s how I was educated.
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These videos our fabulous. Their Going to make my whole, morning! Thanks for posting thems.