Klarinet Archive - Posting 001147.txt from 2002/06
From: "Gene Nibbelin" <gnibbelin@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Illiteratates
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 21:27:21 -0400
Mr. Sheth--
I apologize for momentarily forgetting about the List Members who do not
reside in the U.S. As a matter of fact shortly after sending my post, I had
the after thought that our world wide members generally do a better job with
the English language than the targets of my post.
I truly admire those who are bilingual or trilingual (or more). In modern
terminology I am "language challenged", except for English.
Apologetically,
Gene Nibbelin
-----Original Message-----
From: Bryn Sheth [mailto:tower179@-----.com]
Subject: Re: [kl] Illiteratates
Dear Mr. Nibbelin,
Has it ever occurred to you that not all of the List subscribers may have
English as their first language? For example, I was born and educated in
Germany, and English is actually my third language (after German and
French). It is only natural for all of us who are not native English
speakers to misspell a word or misuse a comma.
I personally find your posting to be extremely narrow-minded, arrogant, and
outright offensive. I would rather deal with people who don't use proper
English than with those who mindlessly judge other people on their writing
skills.
And finally: you moronically misspelled "illiterates" in the subject line of
your pitiful e-mail.
Without any respect,
Alex Berwald
Munchen, Germany
>From: "Gene Nibbelin" <gnibbelin@-----.com>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: "klarinet" <klarinet@-----.org>
>Subject: [kl] Illiteratates Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 17:00:24 -0400
>
>To all of you illiterates on the List:
>
>I imagine that I am not the only one on the List who immediately hits the
>delete icon whenever we encounter your improperly capitalized and
>punctuated
>postings. I base my deletion policy on the thought that if you are so
>devoid of the knowledge of the English language that you don't know how to
>write it, anything that you might have to say would be a waste of time
>reading.
>
>Your ignorance may be yet another testimony to the abject failure of our
>public school system or at least your utilization of it.
>
>If you play the clarinet the way that you write, KEEP YOUR DAY JOB.
>
>Gene Nibbelin
>
>
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