Why do Freeper-types so often have terrible writing skills?

[Zhade]

It's been gnawing at me for a while now. Is it the ignorance? The laziness of not thinking for oneself?

Why is it that you can often tell a person's Freeper status based on this one element? Am I crazy? Do others see it too? Do these pants make me look fat?

[La_Serpiente]

1. I've met some freepers

who write very well. However, I do see from time to time that the writing skills of some freepers are a bit horrid.

[HEyHEY]

2. I think there are a lot of DUers

That can't write worth shit. Not that I am innocent, I have my moments too.

[maggrwaggr]

3. kuz their stoopid

[whirlygigspin]

4. cos dey weeant to pubic skuul

"edjamacation? we don't need no edjamacation!"

yours, Potatoe Joe

[Scurrilous]

5. Hey..

You try writing and fondling a gun at the same time. It ain't easy!

[Zhade]

11. Haha! Nice!

NT!

[JackSwift]

6. God created freepers with really poor writing skills

so that DUer's reading their nonsense would understand that they are idiots and not to engage them in discourse lest those watching not be able to tell the difference.

[neuvocat]

7. They are self-centered and figure they know everything.

They won't bow to the intellectual or literary elite lest they surrender their precious (and sensible) outlook on life.

Such cosmetic morality aside, they will never dare muddy up the waters of their own beliefs for fear of what they would find under the surface.

[wuushew]

8. Down with Prezident Klintoon! Gawd bless the U.S.A.

support our troops and pray they don't slip on the glass floor once we nuke Irak.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

9. One need look no further than their philosphy

They don't need no edumacation and them schools only wanna teach you sex and heathenism. They don't believe in spending on education. They don't value education and regard anyone educated as elite.

[ComerPerro]

10. Actually, I wouldn't generalize all FReepers

Some of them (If you browse any of the right wing boards) write very well. There is some very good (though fundamentally flawed) origional writings on FR.

But, yes, the ones that come here have horrid writing skills, if any at all.

To answer your question, therefore, I would say that the FReeper-types that can actually write are smart enough not to post here.

[Booberdawg]

12. You look nice in those pants

:D

And most freepers are just morans. They can't help it.

[wuushew]

13. Unedited post from Freerepublic

To: NYC GOP Chick

I think use UN make sense. If there's a UN present in Iraq today, that 15 soldiers might be from France!


25 posted on 11/02/2003 7:11 PM PST by verybdog
< Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies >

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1013372/posts

[ComerPerro]

14. Wow! Stupid and hateful!

What a winning combination we have here!

And so coherently written!

[SoCalDem]

15. Lots of people think faster than they type, and are not great editors

{waves hand)..

Of course if the thought process is flawed to begin with, well.....

I read the goofiest letter to the editor tonight.. talk about mixed metaphors, and trite phrases..


found it.. read this and tell me what his point is.. I was surprised that they would even print such a long rambling letter :shrug:


http://www.theprairiestar.com/articles/2003/10/31/ag_news/local_and_regional_news/lr1.txt

Ag News: Local And Regional News

Reader says column is biased








Dear Editor and Mr. Guebert,

Sir, your opinion "A failure to communicate."

Following a nation's track record from birth to fall as in the good of the U.S. of A reveals that spin, corruption, rumors, birth of PORK, bold-face being, finger-pointing et al are a continuing perfection.

Yet very few (on one hand) in the last 200 years have made evidence of an attempt at unbiasness. Yet the two true pulses of a (once) great nation, the Democrats and Republicans, intentionally fail to be true leaders. Ernst - while the so-called "other parties" continue to perform - whose on first? circus act.

So now we have a formidable nation who are non-voters fully contempt of national, state, county, city charades. Then we have the army of finger-pointers, who again, intentionally refuse to get an "A+" in their homework as long as their partiality can be claimed as "opinion."

Bias, prejudice, indifference, etc., are simple and complex human options - choices one makes intentionally in the absence of mature discernment.

This Capitol Hill communication thing is tantamount to both parties, hands dripping with blood, greed and yes - crap. What we truly have here is an ongoing citizen failing to communicate to any - all levels of government to clean up their act. This excuse of "write or call your elected official" is - has been a worthless ploy rendering one's "opinion" from whole milk to 1 percent as politicians are self-serving anyway.

There are still far too many who specialize in their cause in "the sky is falling" mindset. Political wannabes learn how to swallow hard in the arena of "damned if you do-damned if you don't" as the spin - opinion experts endeavors to seek self-importance by being right more often than wrong.

One can be an expert by researching Readers Digest articles and play the roulette wheel of right-wrong for a chance to be a modern Nostrodomus. Or I told you so!

Biased opinions are of the same quality found on public toilet walls. A real opinion violates the silence of saying something good about the other person rather than not say anything at all.

Or by doing some homework, the truth alters the convenience of jumping to conclusions.

Or! At the corner café, your friend looks at the new customer and remarks, "he's a smuck!" Out of the usual rational indifference, you say, "ya!" Later on you ask why and your friend says, "Gotta look at his license plate."

Or! At the federal OMB. "Well, what's this warn on global terrorism going to cost?" "Who's Rob and Peter this election?" "Well, according to so-n-so's opinion, just put in about nine or 10 zeros then when the next party takes office they will tell us where to put the commas and the decimal point."

May I conclude that mil order soap boxes being non-U.S.-made tend to reflect the mind it supports. America is being taken for a ride, and too many biased opinions are not pointing out the true locations of the squeaking wheels.

-Robert Angle

Reed Point

[ComerPerro]

16. LOL!!! WTF is this???

I tried to make sense of it.

Sounds like someone of limited intelligence getting caught up in "big words" in an effort to look educated.

[SoCalDem]

17. I read it twice, and still did not get his "point"

Did he even HAVE one :shrug:

[ComerPerro]

18. I was going to point out precisely where I found confusion

But that would involve cutting and pasting the whole letter.

A few highlights though:

Then we have the army of finger-pointers, who again, intentionally refuse to get an "A+" in their homework as long as their partiality can be claimed as "opinion."

What?

One can be an expert by researching Readers Digest articles and play the roulette wheel of right-wrong for a chance to be a modern Nostrodomus. Or I told you so!

Huh???

Or! At the corner café, your friend looks at the new customer and remarks, "he's a smuck!" Out of the usual rational indifference, you say, "ya!" Later on you ask why and your friend says, "Gotta look at his license plate."

Jesus Christ, man, are you gonna pass that shit or what? It must be really good...

Or! At the federal OMB. "Well, what's this warn on global terrorism going to cost?" "Who's Rob and Peter this election?" "Well, according to so-n-so's opinion, just put in about nine or 10 zeros then when the next party takes office they will tell us where to put the commas and the decimal point."

Rob and Peter??? :wtf: ???

[WoodrowFan]

25. Rob and Peter, I think he meant

I think "Rob and Peter" was MEANT to be "who is robbing peter (to pay paul) this election". LOL.

[alphafemale]

21. I have NO idea...but it was a rather fun read anyway

Looked like it might have been intentionally unedited.

I've read much worse than that.

[Rabrrrrrr]

27. I think his problem isn't lack of education, or being a freeper

I think he's psychologically imbalanced. It sure reads like other stuff I've read by people are a little titched in the head, and can't quite make sense out of stuff.

Freepers also, of course, are insane, but in a different way, and they tend write more illiterately, not insanely.

So this guy's prblem isn't so much whether he's repuke or democrat or freep or DUer, it's that his brain isn't firing right.

[NuckinFutz]

29. Wow!

Okay. 'Fess up. That was really W's speechwriter, right?

[BigMcLargehuge]

31. Wow...

I think he assembled that letter with one of those magnetic poetry kits...

"Me fail English? That's unpossible!"

[Name removed]

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

24. I've noticed a certain pride

in illiteracy. I went into a store where there was a sign that read "Smile. Your on camera." I told the clerk about the misspelling and she said, "We know it, and we aren't gonna change it," with a touch of pride in her voice. I thought, "Very well. Help keep up the stereotype that people from Arkansas are dumb hillbillies."

The sad thing is that in this rural part of the Ozarks there are ways to become educated, if you so desire. I get two different NPR stations and yet I'm looked at as a kook for listening to classical music. There is live theater in the town where I work, but most people with whom I'm in contact just talk about hunting and the high school football games.

All my life I've noticed an undercurrent of anti-intellectualism in the Midwest and South, where I have lived. It coincides with political leaning, for the most part. Democrats usually show an interest in learning, while the right-wingers I've met are the ones who are suspicious of anyone using words with more than two syllables and who insist on using complete sentences.

[kodi]

20. an inability to think in a clear and concise manner has much to do with it

so does the fact that many freepers have parents who are brother and sister

[kcordell]

22. It's Not The Pants

It's your butt. LOL!

[REP]

23. Alas, Not Limited to Freepers

The lack of basic grammar, syntax and spelling skills is not limited to our dear Freeper friends; many of DU (and elsewhere) write so poorly it makes my teeth curl.

[WoodrowFan]

26. Perhaps it's their anger

My writing deteriorates when I am angry and many freeprs are angry all the time.

[NuckinFutz]

28. Ignorance

born of stupidity and resulting in fear of anyone or anything they see as different from themselves, thus creating the attitude of bigotry in most of them. That which we do not understand, we fear and learn to hate, if we don't try to understand.


On edit: Sometimes I don't type so well.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

30. I think it has to do with the Freeper's lack of emphasis on EDUCATION.

I mean it's obvious from their stance on how education funding is expendable when it comes to, well, ANYTHING else. If a school has no funding, their kids are going to end up not learning a whole lot of important things, like GRAMMAR and Writing skills. God, I go to a predominately freeper college in the middle of rural Oklahoma. These people and DOUBLE NEGATIVES make me wanna barf.
Duckie

[kmla]

32. My take on why Freepers have terrible writing skills?

Intellectual laziness.

Most people have the capacity to learn. Most do learn, and continue to learn throughout their entire lives. However, some reach a certain plateau, and are satisfied. They settle on ideas, thought processes, spellings, and other factors of communication that are easy to remember and repeat. (Megadittoes, Rush!)

For instance, why do a greater that average number of freepers have problem with the correct versions of "Your vs. You're" and "their vs. there"? It has to do with laziness. It is much easier to type the sentence "Your a damned liberul! So Their!" than to actually try to remember the actual grammar guidelines that illustrate the correct usage for the sentence they are trying to construct. They figure that if someone needs to decipher and interpret what they are trying to communicate, it will be on the reader's end, not theirs.

Same can be said for their views on many things. It is much easier to categorize things cleanly in black and white (You're either with us or against us... Abortion is wrong in all instances... Government is bad... Taxes are bad...) than to actually think through an idea, and perhaps reach the conclusion that there is a grey area. "Dammit, it just doesn't fit my nice and neat little label!"

That is it. Laziness. It is easier not to have to think. You can make intellectually retarded statements (retarded in the inability to grow and achieve, that is)like,

"It's the foreigner's fault I can't get a job.."
"It's unpatriotic to speak against the President when we're at war!"
"Those Dixie Chicks are treasonous bitches!"

And when someone wants to engage you in a conversation, you can interpret anything that doesn't fit within your classification parameters as "a bunch of liberal bullshit."

That's my take. Basic intellectual laziness.

Hopefully, I didn't misspell anything badly, or use the incorrect version of their or there...

[Castilleja]

33. I see that too

I just don't see how people can write like that, unless they honestly don't care that they look less than educated. I suspect it is intellectual laziness, as someone posted above. *Your pants have just the right amount of cling*