Re:Nearly half of adult Canadians struggle with literacy
by alpaca128 on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @05:26AM
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> Ah, the ad hominem attack that has nothing to do with the substance of the argument.
If you judge others based on what they read you better meet your own standards, that's all I'm saying.
> Never mind that I'm not a native speaker
Me neither. Even though according to your statements in previous comments I'm illiterate.
Re:Nearly half of adult Canadians struggle with literacy
by coldtea on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @06:29AM
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>If you judge others based on what they read you better meet your own standards, that's all I'm saying.
I don't judge any particular person, much less one I'm involved in argument with, for that to be an ad-hominen.
I also don't abstracty judge people in general/in toto (e.g. morally, or in some such capacity) I judge their literacy/culture etc.
For this purpose, "what you read" has historically been even better than a mere correlation / proxy (being "well read" having been an essential attribute of culture).
Yes, but those were just examples, not meant to pinpoint the golden standard but to illustrate the point.
>The same applies to every other single individual.
Yes, but it shouldn't apply to a collective cultural consensus.
Of course in this era nothing can be said to be of a higher standard, and everything cultural is subjective, lest one offends the high priests of mass culture and their "individual (consumer) is king" religion. So feel free to downvote, like other cultures and eras would have felt free to upvote.
>As a side note, before you start gatekeeping literacy you may want to avoid grammar mistakes in your own writing.
Ah, the ad hominem attack that has nothing to do with the substance of the argument.
Never mind that I'm not a native speaker, and I would like to see how you would have fared in my language :-)