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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 10:01 PM
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DUer Ocelot asks, "What is it with freepers and punctuation?"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1989490#1989514

I'd really like to explore that phenomenon.

Any takers?

It's not as if thinking about this has kept me up at night, but hey, it is one of the great mysteries of the universe :)
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 10:04 PM
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1. Level ONE ....Lack of Definitions....unable to communicate clearly due to
small vocab and poor command of English.

Results in poor grammar.

They make it up with bravado, machismo, and arrogance.
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 10:04 PM
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2. Hey Shug
:hi:
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 10:17 PM
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4. Hi there Cat...:o)
Come, we go hang gliding, I have an extra glider.....good fun and so exciting....
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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 02:06 PM
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26. self-delete
Edited on Sun Aug-27-06 02:07 PM by bigtree
I should read
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wiley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 04:00 PM
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27. You have a gift of clarity and insight
Arrogance equals narrow-minded defensiveness;insecurity and tenous self esteem - a fear of life and mortality that requires filters.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 10:05 PM
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3. If they were educated, thier political opinions would be examined
Since thier beliefs don't stand up to even cursory examination, they tend to be either uneducated or simply unwilling to think (a condition that is often religiously induced.)
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deaniac21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-28-06 10:39 AM
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38. Thier beliefs are stupid. They are all lairs.
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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 11:01 PM
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5. small brains... small vocabularies
probably small other things as well
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 11:08 PM
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6. Mortal enemies
Don't you know semi-colons are of the Devil? And let's not even start with apostrophes. How can you trust any punctuation mark that doesn't rest on the line? Dotted letters are suspect, too.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 11:18 PM
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7. Well, they spend a lot of time examining their colons ...
... and still can't figure out why their wimmen folk miss so many periods. :evilgrin:
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ashling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 11:24 PM
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8. I loathe freepers as much as the next DUer
but I also think that before we make fun of them for their grammer, we should take a look at the spelling and grammer that gets by on this board.

:shrug:

Today I saw a post about Fema "trailors."

Having said that, I think that a great many freepers never made it out of 3rd grade. :)
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Common Sense Party Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 11:27 PM
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9. I have seen spelling and grammar on DU that makes my hair curl.
Glass houses, everyone.
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 11:42 PM
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11. Maybe some, but Freepers are much worse.
this is hugh!!!11111 I'm series!!!11111111

don't be a moran!!!!1111
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ashling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 12:01 AM
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13. including the spelling mistakes in my post above
I am sooooooooo embarrassed.

:blush:
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SmokingJacket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 01:53 PM
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25. Still, trolls often give themselves away with their poor punctuation
and spelling.

I've known really bright people who spell terribly, but at least they try. Trolls/freepers don't seem to even try much of the time.
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shugah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-28-06 09:57 AM
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35. glass houses, true ... but ...
Edited on Mon Aug-28-06 09:58 AM by shugah
i agree that poor spelling and grammar can be seen across the political spectrum. however if one intends to create signage that is to call into question the intelligence of others (for instance calling someone an idiot or a moron) doesn't it make sense that one should also exhibit at least a little more intelligence than the target of the taunts? :shrug:

edit: grammar :blush:
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-28-06 10:04 AM
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36. Yup, freepers aren't the only guilty ones.
Edited on Mon Aug-28-06 10:16 AM by RebelOne
I have seen some really atrocious punctuation, grammar and spelling errors here at DU. I'm a copy editor, so I cringe when I see these errors and it is so hard to keep myself from correcting them.

But nothing compares with the Repukes at the RaptureReady forums. Check this out:

http://www.rr-bb.com/showthread.php?t=273408
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Nicole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 02:26 AM
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21. Spelling that gets by on this board?
How about the spelling that gets by on this thread? :evilgrin:
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-28-06 09:49 AM
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34. .
:evilgrin:
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 11:29 PM
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10. I dunt now what your talking abowt. Whats you're isshoe?
lol
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Union Thug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 11:47 PM
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12. I've seen spelling and grammar from highly educated people that
requires massive amounts of editing to make coherent. While the "morans" and "Hughs1111!!!!!!" of the world are good for a chuckle, I would hate to focus too much energy on things that are ultimately irrelevant.

One of my favorite quotes..and I think it may have been Robert Anton Wilson (but I can't remember) demands that we "illuminate the opposition." Better to illuminate them on political abstractions than how to avoid using the passive voice, etc. :-)
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 01:42 AM
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16. The ability to communicate effectively is ANYTHING but "irrelevant."
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Union Thug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 01:49 PM
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24. You're not an English teacher are you? :-) n/t
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 08:19 PM
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30. Nope. A medical professional. Effective communication is VERY
important in my field.
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Union Thug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-28-06 09:44 AM
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33. No doubt. Now, as an insider, please lobby for better penmanship..
...for doctors. I don't know WHAT is in my prescription! :-)
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-28-06 10:26 AM
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37. After 24 yrs of writing in charts, my handwriting has seriously
deteriorated. I think because the hand can't begin to keep up with the brain, and it tries, and the result is scribble.
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 12:04 AM
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14. Proper Use Of Punctuation Requires Some Level Of Thought. Freepers Aren't
so good in the independent thinking department, so when they are required to think it kinda throws em off.
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Lindacooks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 12:16 AM
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15. They're stupid.
I'm not talking about posting on a message board, or writing an email to someone. These people are displaying lack of grammar knowledge on signs that they hoist in front of TV cameras; that they want to be seen; that is displaying their 'message', such as it is. You'd think there would be somebody in their crowd who would spot those errors and have them fixed, but apparently they're all that ignorant. That's the difference between freepers and Democrats. I've never seen such poor grammar on liberal protest signs.
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ninkasi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 01:48 AM
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17. They also have a tendency
on some message boards to post in all caps. I interpret this as a post which is shrill, and angry, and has to shout to be noticed. We sometimes use caps for a word or two, to make a point, but they scream all of their words. They are very angry people, aren't they?
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wiley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 02:12 AM
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20. Some are very well paid, actually, and will write whatever they are
instructed to write. I think they have ten templates that are passed around the country. If you do a Google or Yahoo search on a certain Freeper phrase, you'll find that it comes up with multiple authors' names in different cities. The LCD among Republicans is the willingness to dishonestly manipulate people for personal and/or selfish ends, at those people's expense.
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wiley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 01:58 AM
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18. It's not just that. It's spelling as well. Most
Freepers mispell the same words incorrectly. It's either a ploy to garner sympathy from other "non-Ivy leaguers or non-elites" or they actually are all really bad spellers. The former goes with the anti-elitist playbook of the Pukes. But the LCD among Freepers isn't spelling or grammatical competence. It's running interference as a non-questioning soldier or servant to a leader or master.
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TexasLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 02:02 AM
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19. There idiot's
Rilly-- there morans who keep makeing hugh mistakes with spelling--

and with everything else in their unexamined lives.
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 12:30 PM
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22. kick
:kick:
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tnlefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 12:47 PM
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23. Corporate America and those damned Captain Underpants I suspect!
Corporate America did give us ketchup, Dunkin'Donuts, Krispy Kreme and those damned Captain Underpants books used intshunul incorrect spelling. My kids read those books in grades K-3, and since I think most freepers are still at those grade levels of reading and watch too much TV, I'm just assuming these things to be the culprits.

It's my theory and I'm sticking to it!
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 04:02 PM
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28. I'm not willing to say that only Freepers and their ilk punctuate poorly
There is plenty of it on DU forums.
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Jazz2006 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 08:29 PM
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31. Agreed. Sometimes the poor punctuation and spelling here
at DU makes me cringe, too.

It is not a trait exclusive to freepers.
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Mika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 05:18 PM
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29. The answer is simple. They are morans.
Edited on Sun Aug-27-06 05:20 PM by Mika


:7

:hi:
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 08:55 PM
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32. AND THE WINNER IS!!!
:hi:

:rofl:
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-28-06 10:42 AM
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39. Illiteracy.
That is, functional illiteracy.

Literate enough to pass junior high, but too dumb to read any books.

That said, there's a big difference between making common grammatical mistakes and misspellings, which we see here at DU and any other educated place, and the illiteracy found at freerepublic or places like sites for Nickelodeon cartoons populated by children.
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