• Carla Wilson (7/15/2008)


    Can we please rise above the "grammar issues".

    I really enjoy hearing from the global community, and appreciate the effort everyone puts into volunteered articles.

    I look forward to more articles in the series.

    Since we're here on this Internet thingy...it seems to me that one's grammar comprises a very large part of how one presents oneself to the rest of the world. It actually is important. It actually says something.

    In any event, pointing out problems with the article's presentation is not mean. It is just plain fact. If my kid spells "cat" like K - A - T, I don't tell him he's 2/3rds right and pat him on the head. Some might, but woe be unto that child when faced with reality, later.

    I've actually refused to use software at times because either the accompanying literature or the interface, itself, was rife with horribly written prose. Why? Carelessness evident in what I can see only makes me distrust what I can't (i.e. the underlying code).

    Now, the upside for the article's author: I wouldn't even be able to write out [all 18 words of] Stallone's dialog from Rambo: First Blood in MAK's native language (whatever that is). Okay. Got it. English is his second language. That is what his grammar is telling us. Ain't nothing wrong with that. Knowing that, though, does not make the grammar right and didn't stop me from chuckling through bits of the article.

    And furthermore, all your base are belong to us. Make your time. Ha ha ha ha.