Comments by "roidroid" (@roidroid) on "Does grammar matter? - Andreea S. Calude" video.

  1. +Random Den I know right? What's next? Interracial marriage? Women voting? Where's my smelling salts, i think i feel an episode of the vapors comming on
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  2. +Joshua Guillemette wait... i don't see anything on that page that says the animation work is voluntary. It says "Freelance", that's paid work. (good)
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  3. +Jesse Steck Since communication is a 2 person process, it's incorrect to assume that your inability to understand someone would be solely their fault (why not your fault? Why automatically assume you're in the correct position by default?). You should look at people's differences in talking as the same as people who speak entirely different languages. You're going to have to be immersed in their culture for some time, to properly understand the nuances of what is being communicated. I very regularly have the sensation while listening to people from other cultures, where i can understand the words but i can also tell that there's something important that i'm missing out on. i don't assume i'm listening to idiots, what i assume is that i havn't been around this person or their culture enough to be able to pick up on the nuances, what they're really saying. It's not their fault per-se, since they're not a part of my culture either, they likely don't know all the nuances of my culture just as i don't know theirs. Neither of us are speaking the universal default language/grammar, we both just have our own languages - i wouldn't want them to think i was an idiot because of how i talked, so why would i do that to them. Lets not let our first reactions be shallow, this is a real actual person infront of me, they have depth.
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  4. YASS!!
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  5. After watching this video, i still didn't see how correcting someone's grammar like that is ever appropriate. It's either being rude, socially inept, or elitist. Are Prescriptivists just... Autistic or something? Maybe if like... both people were Linguists, correcting* eachother's grammar during a story would be acceptable because both parties know it's a mutually enjoyed shared interest. It'd be basically an inside joke. *it's not even "correcting" tho, since there is no universal standard for these things and they're always evolving. The person wouldn't say "you should say it this way", they'd instead say "You should say it this way, if you were trying to sound like a person who grew up in this specific particular geographical/historical point".
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  6. +Jesse Steck Not sure if you're being ironic or not. No-one takes bigots seriously.
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  7. +Jesse Steck "bigot" as defined in a dictionary, as in someone who has an unfair dislike for those who are different to them (ie: people who speak differently to you). IE: if someone speaks a certain grammatical way, and you assume that they're ignorant, uneducated or outright stupid. It's not a valid assumption, and anyone who makes that assumption is themselves an idiot.
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  8. People are evaluated by the quality of their ideas
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