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- From: smith@ug.cs.dal.ca (Sean Smith)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Halfwits.
- Message-ID: <BxH7JA.94K@cs.dal.ca>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 01:16:22 GMT
- References: <1dkcj4INNktk@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <1dkcj4INNktk@agate.berkeley.edu> curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
- >Peeve: Halfwits.
- >
- >Specifically, the halfwits at ac.dal.ca. What is it with
- >this place? Is it some kind of remedial community college
- >for the deformed children of alcoholic Eskimos? What do
- >they teach, walrus harpooning?
-
- Nope - we learn useful stuff. Not what they teach at Berkeley,
- evidently.
-
- >Because when Mikey came on, I thought he had to be the
- >scunge at the bottom of the barrel. Someone bribed the
- >admissions director, I thought, slipped him a couple
- >of seal livers under the table, and thus are we afflicted
- >with this helpless reject.
-
- Hey dude, like, chill out, man. (I'm trying to make this so our
- Californian friend can understand me. It's quite a drop.)
-
- >But now we have a couple of other snow apes trying to climb
- >out of the same pit, and it appears Mikey is a regular
- >valedictorian. Of sorts.
-
- Snow apes? Really. You sound like the typical Yank who thinks that
- drifts start immediately north of the 49th parallel. What, still p*ssed off
- that the Blue Jays won the American Series?
-
- >I mean, it's understandable that these here Eskimos are unable
- >to express themselves interestingly, or even grammatically, in
- >the English language. That much is expected. Hell, even most
- >Americans can't.
-
- Finally, a grain of truth. The last sentence, that is.
-
- >But to be able to miss the difference between their posts and
- >the usual standard of expression on alt.peeves? This isn't
- >funny anymore. We're talking serious _illiteracy_ now.
- >And, as the National Campaign for Adult Literacy puts it,
- >"Illiteracy is not a joke."
-
- Hell, I think that my English is just fine, thank you.
-
- Sean
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