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11-01-2010, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by ColinHowell View Post
The person is from Latvia. Attacking his level of English skill is uncalled for.

As for your choice of typeface, I find it needlessly difficult to read.
If he had just said "Could you change your font please, it's hard to read", I would have complied without a second thought. But it's the way he said it, that irked me, and so, I bashed his English in return.

If you're polite and mannered to me, I'll be polite and mannered back to you. If you're not, then don't expect any back from me.

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my point. i doesn't matter on what level my english is. or any language for that matter - i can still say it is lame to write something in ridiculously small font. its ok to add style to your posts for your "character" in this forum, but you should think about what style you are adding...the blue text buy (don't remember his name) has clear text and you can immediately see it and make a connection - o..its that cool guy. now you come a long with your posts and people are like "o, man..this guy with the annoying font again? i don't have time to damage my eyesight...moving on"
Here's an idea. Next time, try put it politely, instead of trying on a play on words which your knowledge (or pronunciation might be a better word for it.) of English isn't cut out to do. When you're trying to translate from one language to another, what might sound fair enough in your language might sound patronizing in another.

Your way of putting it forward sounded patronizing. So I retaliated, slating your English.

And for the actual record, I've used this font a lot since I came onto this forum, and I've had only one person complain. Others have made do. The person who did complained, asked me to change my font. Which I complied.

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P.S what's so sloppy, incorrect about my english? "...." these things? well, you have your annoying font and i have my annoying punctuation.
Lack of capitals, lack of commas (Which you remedied in your last post.) which are forgiveable in the long run, but when patronized, I found it ironic that you tried to bash me for something so small. So I patronized you in return.
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