Re: Whats the point of convertables [sic]?

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On 18/08/2011 17:51,
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When someone
constantly
demonstrates their
illiteracy,
it
proves
they
have shit for brains.

We normal people,
that's
us
by
the
way, don't have time
to
look
up
every
word we post on an
online
dictionary beforehand.

Those of us who are
literate
don't
need to.

You should look up the
word
literate
before you go any
further -
it
doesn't
mean what you think: it
doesn't
mean
being able to spell
every
word
in
the
OED!

Why don't YOU look it up
and
tell
us
what YOU think it means?

I did - hence the above
post.
As
you
clearly don't have a
dictionary
(you
want someone else to look
it
up
for
you), the word literate
means:
"Acquainted with letters
or
literature; able to read
and
write".
Miss-spelling a few words
here
and
there doesn't mean some
one
is
not
literate, which is what
you
were
incorrectly trying to
imply.

"Able to read and write"
implies
being
able to read and write
properly, not just putting
together
a
word salad full of
blunders.

Why do you think they
teach
spelling
in schools?

To further our children's
education
and increase their
vocabulary
and
ability to spell. (which
is
not
what
literate means!).

Spelling is an integral
part
of
literacy.

Wrong. Failing to spell 137
of
the
171,476 words in the OED
does
not
make
a
person illiterate.

If you can't spell, you're
illiterate.
It
really is as
straightforward as that.

Are there no bounds to your
stupidity?

Are you as thick as you sound?
Do
you
drive
a lorry or something?

Pot....kettle, etc.

Do YOU drive a lorry?

No, but I've driven most vehicles,
Including
lorries (in the past).

Driving lorries makes one thick.

How?

Rolling along at 56 mph in lane 1 for
hour
after
hour deadens the
brain (if any).

How do you know? I find plenty to occupy
myself
when
bowling along at
56 mph, I'm sorry to hear don't have such
capability.

Shouldn't you be paying attention to the
road
when
you're driving
instead of occupying yourself, or are you
too
thick
even for that?

Why? I have far better things to do than pay
attention
to the road, I
have a SatNav to give me directions and a
timer
to
let
me know when to
stop and start work, I drive on autopilot
whilst
I
engage in various
other pastimes and activities, can you do
the
same
or
are you engaged
in a boring job with no travel
possibilities.

"Jobs" are for poor people.

That's not true, yet again you are wrong, I
only
work
occasionally
because I enjoy it, I don't need the money I'm
retired.

How can anyone "enjoy" driving a lorry? You are
*really*
thick.

You fail to appreciate that others may have
different
tastes
and
interests,

Lorry drivers have thick tastes and interests.

thick? try looking in the mirror dumbfuck.

What's a "mirror dumbfuck", thicko?

A mirror is a device for viewing a reflection and you
are
a
dumbfuck
as increasing quantities of evidence clearly show.

I've yet to see you produce any such 'evidence',
thicko.

Shame you are too thick to appreciate just how thick
you
appear.

Hysterical, coming from a self-confessed dyslexic!

Yet again demonstrating your ignorance, and you have the
gall
to
label
me thick.

There is no demonstration of ignorance.

Wrong.Your attitude to dyslexia is a clear demonstration of
your
ignorance,

"Dyslexic" and "with learning difficulties" are just
politically
correct expressions for "thick".

Your thickness, on the other
hand, is well established.

In you opinion, which is clearly worthless thus instantly
discarded.

Wortless according to an established thicko? Hilarious!

'Established thicko', is your opinion, thus worthless? I
concur
it
is
hilarious that you can laugh at your own opinions.

You appear to be having problems understanding written
English.
It
must be because you're thick.

What you wrote wasn't English. YOU ARE ILLITERATE.

You can't read. YOU are illiterate.

Its you who can't read (or write)? You used the word 'wortless'?
You
are
both Illiterate and stupid.

Hilarious, coming from someone who puts deliberate (?) errors in
his/her posts.

Do you even know what a typo is, cretin?

Yes, a typo is something that literate people spot and fix before
posting
in
a conversation about literacy! You are illiterate.

No, it isn't, liar...by definition it's an unnoticed error. You're a
cretin.

Oh, right - just like a spelling mistake then?

No, not just like a spelling mistake.

You said a typo is an unnoticed error. A spelling mistake could easily
be
exactly the same.

The difference is that when you read over the text again you'd notice
the typo but not the spelling mistake.

You claim that literate people can read, then why is there
a difference between reading on a screen and reading on paper?

Who said there was a difference?

You did - 4 sentences above - "No, not just like a spelling mistake"

You told us in the past that you mistakenly think that being literate
includes the ability to spell every single word that you write.

Not exactly. I said that a literate person knows which words he/she
can spell and looks up those he/she doesn't before writing them.

And what if the person makes a mistake when writing one of those words down?
Do they become illiterate again?

Do you mean a typo or a spelling mistake?

If you don't
see a spelling mistake when you read over your own work on screen or on
paper, then you are illiterate (by your definition, not by the correct
definition). So why have you now changed your mind and think that a typing
mistake (type) and a written spelling mistake are different?

No. If you don't see a spelling mistake when you read over your own
work (if indeed you do read it over) then you've used a word you can't
spell. That is illiterate.

No, that is a spelling mistake. Being able to read and write is literate.

Being able to write means being able to communicate. You have
asserted that one can write without being able to spell a single word.
That's absurd.

If you choose to limit yourself and only claim to be literate if you can spell
every word that you write, then that's your mistake. Its is possible to
write a word containing a spelling mistake - the spelling mistake doesn't
make the word vanish, its still there and has still been written - by
someone who can write. The rest of the world is happy with the correct
definition of literate.

Prove that the rest of the world dismisses spelling as irrelevant to
literacy.



The dictionary definition is all you need as proof: "The ability to read
and write".

Provided you know what the word "write" means.
>
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If someone is writing, but spelling a few words incorrectly, then it is self evident that they know what the word "write" means. Similarly, if someone is reading a poorly spelled statement that can be understood by others, they will know what "reading" means.

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Bod
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