1pm local time / 16°C (60°F) drizzly
YES, YOU’VE NOTICED temperatures here have dropped (again) steadily from 25°C (77°F) on Monday.
It’s been an angry and upsetting week for me (if you’ve noticed at all from my scribbles this week).
Just got some email comments from real people who didn’t follow proper netiquette about leaving comments.
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The good ones (I think)
For the post “What’s it been? The Engine Room (Part 3)“:—
“These are in fact impressive ideas regarding blogging. You have touched some pleasant factors here. Anyway, keep up the writing.” — Maureen, received 09March 2012
Maureen dear, I think you’re commenting on the phat feature “You don’t blog?” because that post you were commenting on had nothing to do with blogging ideas.
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For the ever-popular post “How well do you know your guitars?“:—
“I have spent a bit of time going through your posts, more than I should have but I must say, it’s worth it!” — Rodea, 08 March
Thank you. It would’ve been even more worth it if you’d just leave your comment there at the post instead.
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For the post “Objectivity: Just another $5 word for subjectivity“:—
“Squares don’t fit in tight circles.” — lauhon on 04 March 2012
True. But I advise you, off-post email comments don’t fit in on-site posts. Namsayin’?
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For the post “Notes: The Man Who Would Be Spy” about my late colleague:—
“I really appreciate this post. […] ‘All that is gold does not glitter, not all those that wander are lost’ by J.R.R. Tolkien.” — kozinski on 25 Feb 2012
Actually the phrase should be, “All that glitters is not gold. All that wanders is not lost.”
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And for no post in particular:—
“In fact your creative writing abilities has inspired me to begin my own blog now.” — anonymity requested, on 23 Feb 2012
This one clearly came after reading the super-longwinded mega-brain-damaged feature “You don’t blog?“. I thanked him (profusely) that my uncreative writing inabilities has managed to inspire someone, somewhere, out there.
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These were real messages from real people. I emailed them back and they actually replied.
Again, I asked these people why they didn’t put in their comments on the posts themselves. Nearly all replied that they preferred to remain anonymous. To which I told them the default commenting system is anonymity (notwithstanding their ‘handles’ and email address) and they could switch off their OpenID or whatever if they don’t want their gravatars shown.
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The clearly negative ones
Meanwhile I’ve gotten an earful (or eyeful, since they’re email) from some srsly hard-arsed people who hated and despised a couple of my posts recently.
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‘Not worth anything serious’
One commenter considered my “You don’t blog?” feature has been:—
“… not worth anything serious because there are people who may not wish to accept any of your recommendations for their blogs due to [sic: because of] their own requirements.” — jjchan, on 23 Feb 2012 just after the last instalment of that feature
It’s fine by me if others don’t wish to accept. My recommendations are, believe it or not, suggestions. They’re not rules that one has to abide by. Never said as such. Derp.
Like I said in my posts, only you know what’s best for your blog. You don’t have to take in my stinkin’ input.
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‘Uncharitable’
One commenter pointedly told me about my downloadables:—
“It is very uncharitable of you to make your downloads not in MS Word format as I am unable to make changes to them.” — koh29
Why the hell would you want to make changes to them?! If you wish to plagiarise them for homework, go ahead, plagiarise! Stop being a lazy f@#k and type the parts you need to plagiarise and do whatever the hell changes you want!
I’ve also explained to this personage that Microsoft Office documents contain macros (software input sequences) that some browsers and antivirus programs could interpret as being viruses. No, that didn’t gel with koh29. Your loss, not mine.
And, by the way, how is making PDF downloads “uncharitable”?
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‘Foolish things’
Another commenter really took it personally about “A little about linguanophiles“:—
“Dear Sir,
I have read your articles on your website regarding Linguists and I write to complain about your subjective bias about the discipline of Linguistics.
I do not agree with you due to [sic: because] your English is poor in grammar and spelling. Your perspective is subjective and your assessment of Linguistics is not correct because I do not believe you not [sic] studied Linguistics before and therefore you do not understand.
I believe you must apologize for saying those foolish things about Linguistics and attempt to understand more about the discipline of Linguistics as I believe it will [sic: would] assist your [own] English fluency and overall academic standard of written work.
I have also read some [other] articles on your website and under my assessment you are a poor writer and [a] poor judge of character[,] and I belive [sic] you are making our [sic] Chinese people appear [sic: look] bad because you are not Chinese so you do not understand our Chinese way[s].”
I am thoroughly humbled by your staggering standard of English-language fluency and am deeply impressed by it. And your clear and present need for attitude adjustment.
A bias is already subjective, you idiot — is there even such a thing as an objective bias? Learn your education better.
My “assessment” (as you put it) is of course not correct. After all, it was only based on my two years’ worth of linguistics training at university level. My fault, I admit. I never said, insinuated, averred, pronounced, proclaimed — choose the words you like best — that it was better or more correct than anybody else’s. It’s just my own view — and many of my readers understand and appreciate that (except you). And, of course, my English is as poor as YOURS, twithead.
If you paid any attention at all, you sonofabitch bitch, you’d notice from my About and About me pages that YOU YOURSELF is a f@#king disgrace to the Chinese race. I’m embarrassed to have you as part of my race, you little odious c@nt.
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‘Audience is Chinese’
Yet another brain-damaged commenter had to put in this general comment:
“I just do not understand why you have never written any of your post in Chinese as you are living in Hong Kong and your audience is Chinese.”
O rly? Where did you get that phantasmagorical idea that I knew how to read and write Chinese and that my audience is necessarily Chinese, my furry little friend?
Actually, I’ve done some technical sleuthing about the issue. Your problem is your browser isn’t configured for the correct Chinese encoding. That’s why you’re unable to read posts in Chinese but in (poor) English. I think you need to reconfigure your encoding and delete that folder called SYSTEM32 that’s preventing this.
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Ladies and gentlemen, if you don’t like the way I drive, then show me a road on which to drive that I could meet your standards and expectations to make my presence acceptable to your esteemed requirements.
—>> My email is thenakedlistener [aroba] gmail [punto] com. <<—
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Friday 9 March 2012, 4.38pm HKT
1pm local time / 16°C (60°F) drizzly
YES, YOU’VE NOTICED temperatures here have dropped (again) steadily from 25°C (77°F) on Monday.
It’s been an angry and upsetting week for me (if you’ve noticed at all from my scribbles this week).
Just got some email comments from real people who didn’t follow proper netiquette about leaving comments.
____________________
The good ones (I think)
Maureen dear, I think you’re commenting on the phat feature “You don’t blog?” because that post you were commenting on had nothing to do with blogging ideas.
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For the ever-popular post “How well do you know your guitars?“:—
Thank you. It would’ve been even more worth it if you’d just leave your comment there at the post instead.
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For the post “Objectivity: Just another $5 word for subjectivity“:—
True. But I advise you, off-post email comments don’t fit in on-site posts. Namsayin’?
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“I really appreciate this post. […] ‘All that is gold does not glitter, not all those that wander are lost’ by J.R.R. Tolkien.” — kozinski on 25 Feb 2012
Actually the phrase should be, “All that glitters is not gold. All that wanders is not lost.”
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And for no post in particular:—
This one clearly came after reading the super-longwinded mega-brain-damaged feature “You don’t blog?“. I thanked him (profusely) that my uncreative writing inabilities has managed to inspire someone, somewhere, out there.
*
These were real messages from real people. I emailed them back and they actually replied.
Again, I asked these people why they didn’t put in their comments on the posts themselves. Nearly all replied that they preferred to remain anonymous. To which I told them the default commenting system is anonymity (notwithstanding their ‘handles’ and email address) and they could switch off their OpenID or whatever if they don’t want their gravatars shown.
____________________
The clearly negative ones
Meanwhile I’ve gotten an earful (or eyeful, since they’re email) from some srsly hard-arsed people who hated and despised a couple of my posts recently.
*
‘Not worth anything serious’
It’s fine by me if others don’t wish to accept. My recommendations are, believe it or not, suggestions. They’re not rules that one has to abide by. Never said as such. Derp.
Like I said in my posts, only you know what’s best for your blog. You don’t have to take in my stinkin’ input.
*
‘Uncharitable’
One commenter pointedly told me about my downloadables:—
Why the hell would you want to make changes to them?! If you wish to plagiarise them for homework, go ahead, plagiarise! Stop being a lazy f@#k and type the parts you need to plagiarise and do whatever the hell changes you want!
I’ve also explained to this personage that Microsoft Office documents contain macros (software input sequences) that some browsers and antivirus programs could interpret as being viruses. No, that didn’t gel with koh29. Your loss, not mine.
And, by the way, how is making PDF downloads “uncharitable”?
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‘Foolish things’
Another commenter really took it personally about “A little about linguanophiles“:—
I am thoroughly humbled by your staggering standard of English-language fluency and am deeply impressed by it. And your clear and present need for attitude adjustment.
A bias is already subjective, you idiot — is there even such a thing as an objective bias? Learn your education better.
My “assessment” (as you put it) is of course not correct. After all, it was only based on my two years’ worth of linguistics training at university level. My fault, I admit. I never said, insinuated, averred, pronounced, proclaimed — choose the words you like best — that it was better or more correct than anybody else’s. It’s just my own view — and many of my readers understand and appreciate that (except you). And, of course, my English is as poor as YOURS, twithead.
If you paid any attention at all, you sonofabitch bitch, you’d notice from my About and About me pages that YOU YOURSELF is a f@#king disgrace to the Chinese race. I’m embarrassed to have you as part of my race, you little odious c@nt.
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‘Audience is Chinese’
Yet another brain-damaged commenter had to put in this general comment:
O rly? Where did you get that phantasmagorical idea that I knew how to read and write Chinese and that my audience is necessarily Chinese, my furry little friend?
Actually, I’ve done some technical sleuthing about the issue. Your problem is your browser isn’t configured for the correct Chinese encoding. That’s why you’re unable to read posts in Chinese but in (poor) English. I think you need to reconfigure your encoding and delete that folder called SYSTEM32 that’s preventing this.
* * *
Ladies and gentlemen, if you don’t like the way I drive, then show me a road on which to drive that I could meet your standards and expectations to make my presence acceptable to your esteemed requirements.
—>> My email is thenakedlistener [aroba] gmail [punto] com. <<—
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© The Naked Listener’s Weblog, 2012.
Images: ‘I have nothing to say’ via Cascade Webdev | Pyrite via Critical Crossroad | Don’t give a f@#k via Some eCards | You can’t write via Mauradat | Brains via c4c.
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