Borders - the end

[DimesDan]

But with people like you with your position on the matter, things may very well stay the same or even get worse. I just hope that you no longer have the right to vote here.

Hey now, Dimesdan, that's a bit far. You might disagree with the ridiculous, stereotyping nonsense he's saying about the rioters, but disenfranchisement isn't the answer. Everyone should have the right to make their opinion heard in government, even the worst opinions. The alternative is a poor road to go down.

Oh very true, if he still lived in The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland I would agree whole heartedly, but as he has upped sticks from England, basically forsaking his home nation and seemingly assimilated himself into his new home I really do hope he can't vote.

I've also heard similar muttering throughout the last few days that then ends with the BNP or UKIP would be a good idea to be in government, I'm glad he is no longer here and thus hopefully ineligible to cast a vote here.

He is fully with in his privilege to speak his mind, but when it comes to actually being able to vote and make his opinion felt in the engine of democracy, I hope not as he may very well destroy that engine.

Dimesdan, get off your high horse. I'm living in America now and generalising is spelled with a z. It's not a spelling mistake.

Yet you deride the education system in this country having been brought up with the usage and the way words are spelt, I take it you do not see the irony in doing that and then making such a small and easily correctable spelling mistake.

 

[DimesDan]

Damn internet fart! Sorry for the double post.

 

[Cicero]

Dimesdan, get off your high horse. I'm living in America now and generalising is spelled with a z. It's not a spelling mistake.

Yet you deride the education system in this country having been brought up with the usage and the way words are spelt, I take it you do not see the irony in doing that and then making such a small and easily correctable spelling mistake.

It's not a mistake; it's correct American English.

 

[DimesDan]

Dimesdan, get off your high horse. I'm living in America now and generalising is spelled with a z. It's not a spelling mistake.

Yet you deride the education system in this country having been brought up with the usage and the way words are spelt, I take it you do not see the irony in doing that and then making such a small and easily correctable spelling mistake.

It's not a mistake; it's correct American English.

Which I am fully aware of and if an American who was not taught English as laid out by the Department of Educations National Curriculum, you would have a point.

Brotherbenny is in fact English and was also taught by an English teacher and was taught how to
read and write English as laid out by the Department of Educations National Curriculum you don't.

So yes, it is a mistake, a very ironic mistake given what he has said and the state of reading and writing here in the UK.

 

[BrotherBenny]

Dimesdan, I'm used to spelling the American way now, it's not a mistake.

Also, I can still vote in the UK as I haven't become a US citizen yet, but I'd never vote for the BNP or UKIP. I'm more likely to vote for the Green Party if anything or even the Lib Dems.

I might be vocal in my opinions, but I'm not a racist or a bigot, just a jerk sometimes.

 

[DimesDan]

Dimesdan, I'm used to spelling the American way now, it's not a mistake.

Also, I can still vote in the UK as I haven't become a US citizen yet, but I'd never vote for the BNP or UKIP. I'm more likely to vote for the Green Party if anything or even the Lib Dems.

I might be vocal in my opinions, but I'm not a racist or a bigot, just a jerk sometimes.

At least you can admit that, fair dues, me on the other hand.......

 

[Therin of Andor]

It's been my experience that those of low literacy do not actually care about the children they have, allowing them to run amok

The only thing you've proven is that your experience is not very broad. Or informed. Highly literate children can run amok too. And sometimes they can do so in highly literate ways, not just physical.

In the school where I work, some of the parents who cause us the most grief are quite literate, but totally absorbed in their own personal or career pursuits, not necessarily concerned with matters of child-rearing. Some of the children bloom academically in spite of their home environment, and some don't. There are also the teen years where kids were were once literate suddenly seem not to be, and who score poorly on tests, then in their 20s it all kicks back in.

So yes, it is a mistake, a very ironic mistake given what he has said and the state of reading and writing here in the UK.

When posting on an American ST bbs, I often type "honor", "novelization", "counselor", etc. because the US-set auto spellchecker likes them that way.

 

[Sakrysta]

So... We're done talking about Borders, I guess.

 

[Lieut. Arex]

But - Borders had a huge physical CD section. Oops.

This was a huge mistake. They chose to emphasize music and DVD sales just as those markets were shifting to online distribution. As time has gone one, B&N has shrunk those sections and I expect to see more contraction after the first of the year.

They farmed out their online presence to Amazon (!) choosing to concentrate on kiosks that people would go in person to, to order things. Oops.

That Borders did this still boggles my mind. Online sales are a huge chunk of the market and they chose to give a primary competitor a drink from their revenue stream. This looked like they simply didn't give a damn. Even a Keystone Kops organization like Books-A-Million handles their own website. How hard is it to figure this out.

As for the self-serve kiosks, B&N put some into stores built a few years ago (before new store construction stopped), but never moved to install them in older locations, though it would have been nice.

They came late to the ereader game with "Kobo."

Borders may have been slow moving into the eReader business, but by then it didn't matter. The damage had been done.

 

[MagGu]

Got me a couple-a Trek books on sale at Borders last week! Go me! Seriously though, it's sad to see it go.

 

[plynch]

Perhaps I'm generalizing or tarring them all with the same brush but in my view they deserve it.

In English, the English you were taught at school, generalisation is not spelt with a Z, it is in fact spelt with an S.

To make such a basic mistake and amusing error when harping on about others illiteracy

Don't you mean "others' illiteracy" in your post deriding someone about deriding others' illiteracy? (Phew. How many layers of irony there?)

Or, do you literate Britons have different apostrophe rules, perhaps?

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Nope...that's not a rule in any English dialect.

 

[DimesDan]

Perhaps I'm generalizing or tarring them all with the same brush but in my view they deserve it.

In English, the English you were taught at school, generalisation is not spelt with a Z, it is in fact spelt with an S.

To make such a basic mistake and amusing error when harping on about others illiteracy

Don't you mean "others' illiteracy" in your post deriding someone about deriding others' illiteracy? (Phew. How many layers of irony there?)

Or, do you literate Britons have different apostrophe rules, perhaps?

Nope...that's not a rule in any English dialect.

Well done for being late to the party, both of you, you're so late that fashionably late doesn't cover it and those involved have now upped, left and have discussed what needs to be discussed.

Just to clarify though, I understand you believe you think what I was writing was a slight on the American way or some other nonsense, but as Brotherbenny is not American, he was brought up being taught English here in the UK and he was utilising words that are not written the way he was taught while using one hell of a massive brush to tar the entire National Curriculum creating illiterate yobs, I decided to point that irony out. At no point what so ever did I say that my spelling and grammar was better than his (because I am under no illusion that it is), I just found it annoying that he should have such views while spelling words with a Z and not as he was taught an S and I pointed this out.

Now he's explained why he does that, he has conceded his point and it's all been forgiven, so yeah, parties over and there is nothing to see now.

 

[plynch]

"party's," not "parties"


And, I'm on record in another thread for criticizing someone for correcting someone else's grammar! Oh, the irony compounded. Oh, the humanity. But I only did it here since you were picking on someone else's spelling first. Sauce for the goose, eh what?

 

[Idran]

And, I'm on record in another thread for criticizing someone for correcting someone else's grammar!

Their shouldn't bee know coma they're.

 

[DimesDan]

"party's," not "parties"


And, I'm on record in another thread for criticizing someone for correcting someone else's grammar! Oh, the irony compounded. Oh, the humanity. But I only did it here since you were picking on someone else's spelling first. Sauce for the goose, eh what?

Honestly, I don't give a damn, what I do give a damn about is unfounded generalisations that Brotherbenny was talking about which has been discussed and is now water under the bridge as far as I am and I assume he is aware.

So yes, the parties over.

 

[LightningStorm]

From Borders to Riots to petty bickering about grammar and spelling to differences between American and British English.

Borders is dead, and so is this thread.

Ha, I rhymed.