"Sapphyre" wrote in message
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My gosh, I can't believe this is still going on after how many weeks???

You can have your standards, but you will find every single place in
life, there are few people who live up to them, and fewer who will go
the extra mile.

You come across as one of those cranky customers I have that are upset
that there isn't a pop-up robot clerk waiting for them, and get upset
that you waited an extra 30 seconds to pay for your newspaper because,
*gasp*, I may have had to clean up a mess made by the slob in front of
you!!

Sad is at may be, if you just looked out for excellence in life instead
of setting the bar, you might find people impress you a whole lot
more. And someone like you may not be overly impressed with my
spelling and grammar in English (even though it's not my native
tongue), but when you shop around at stores, you might actually think
I'm the **good clerk** and keep coming back to my store because I
**care** about my job. I do not **care** about posting on Usenet. It's
an anonymous forum to casually exchange information, and while I make
an effort to spell, punctuate, and write properly, I am not perfect,
nor do I ever want to be perfect.

This kind of crap is exactly the reason I don't really feel like
posting here anymore. If I so much as put a comma in the wrong place, I
get this vision that someone's going to knock me down a notch for it
rather than read the question and give me an answer of sorts.

Besides, I thought this was the USA & Canada travel forum, not "learn
to improve your English."

There, I said it. And it's been burning me up for weeks watching this
thread go on. That being said, I'm going back to doing my net searching
on attractions and compiling travel links for my Yahoo! group.

S.


The spelling trolls and the punctuation trolls are people who are very
disappointed with themselves and try to assuage their own feelings of
inadequacy by being as demeaning as they can for the most petty "offenses"
imaginable. There are plenty of people on this planet who are extremely
intelligent, but, not particularly good at spelling English words and at
punctuation. Who cares, especially at the level of a Usenet newsgroup. As
long as the readers can understand what you are stating - that's all that
matters. And the second you see the words of a spelling troll and/or a
punctuation troll, you will instantly know that you are reading the words of
very frustrated, petty, immature people who feel trapped in their own skin
and are desperately trying to escape. Don't give them a second thought, and
just laugh at those people as they torture themselves and beat themselves
with the club that's intended for others. And you probably speak and write
better English than those people are able to communicate in your native
language. The trolls need to lighten up - after all, this is only the
Usenet. KM
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