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[beardown]

hold position until right or everyone forgets

[SemiBizz]

Tim Ord's interviews leave me with the perfect picture of a country boy. He has a stubborn lack of command of English language skills (which is fine if English is not your native tongue but his accent is distinctly American - midwest), which makes me wonder about the rest of his grey matter. I use similar methodologies and come up with far different conclusions.

[OEXCHAOS]

Country boys rely upon that type of bigotry to gain an advantage over their city-bred brethren... M

[SemiBizz]

It's not bigotry. Grammar is a basic measurement of intelligence. Furthermore, how smart is it to take such a deep loss?

Edited by SemiBizz, 19 January 2007 - 11:48 AM.

[dcengr]

Tim Ord's interviews leave me with the perfect picture of a country boy. He has a stubborn lack of command of English language skills (which is fine if English is not your native tongue but his accent is distinctly American - midwest), which makes me wonder about the rest of his grey matter. I use similar methodologies and come up with far different conclusions.

Bwahahaha. You think thats bad? EW technicians come up with different wave structures from the same person for the same chart.

Almost like being an economist.

[OEXCHAOS]

It's not bigotry. Grammar is a basic measurement of intelligence. Furthermore, how smart is it to take such a deep loss?

Country boys love that attitude. And trust me, it's bigotry. I may not like poor grammar, but it's no measure of intelligence. I just had that experience with a fellow this fall. VERY smart real estate investor, but you'd think he was a "hillbilly" dolt to listen to him. That probably makes him a couple good deals a year.

People of any intelligence level will immitate the speech patterns of those around them in most cases.

Regardless, such comments are rude and insulting to someone (a rather nice guy) who freely gives his material to us to enrich our experience here. I probably should have focused on that, but the nature of your comment indicates a tendency to collectivize individuals which is something that any individualist should try to address. It also rubs me the wrong way and so let myself be drawn off point.

Take away: Don't insult the contributors. It makes us look bad.

[SemiBizz]

I'm not going to argue this point further. I was born and raised in the South and come from a family of hillbillies, so country boys that play dumb have nothing on me either...