I can see the problem there....

I had a few minutes, Burn, so I went through your post. This isn't what I would have said or how I likely would've said it. Rather, it's my best interpretation of what I think you were trying to say.



It can be challenging here at times to broach certain subjects without seeming to offend someone.

It seems that when there's a disagreement, rather being willing to discuss it, some people resort to virtual tantrums in the apparent belief the the louder they yell, and the harder they pound their keyboards, the more merit their argument has. Some will even enlist the help of others who agree with them and begin a renewed, united assault.

It's pretty clear that some folks will dismiss out of hand, a new idea or a different way of doing things for but a single reason; "It's the way I've always done it".

These people don't investigate the alternate method and certainly don't bother to give it a try. Rather, they seem to have the attitude that the new way is wrong because it's wrong ... and that's that. It seems the very idea of trying something new is almost sacrilege to them - their actual religion being that of happily and blindly adhering to the status quo. And I'm not alone in thinking this, as others have taken note of it as well.

Rather than berate someone for possessing less knowledge on a given subject, we should all look into it in more detail, then collaborate with one another so that everyone can benefit from our findings. After all, none of us was born an expert on the subject.

I have no problem with people asking for information, even evidence as to how the new idea or method improves on time-honored ones. I do have a problem with unwarranted scorn, particularly when it comes from someone whose entire argument is nothing more than some version of, as I noted earlier, "I do it this way because I've always done it this way, and you should just shut up and do it my way too".



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Concise and to the point. I like it
Thanx
May i steal it ?

I didn't proof it well at all, but feel free.

Wow, what a difference thanks to nkowi.

In the future, proper puncuation, and sentence breaks make all the difference in the world. As you said, concise and to the point.

stolen

Like most people, I didn't really learn how to write until I had been working for a few years. Of course I thought I knew how to write, but it wasn't until I had been schooled by people who really did write clearly that I picked up better habits.

It is not hard to write well. Following 20% of the rules gets you 80% of the way. Here are a couple of pointers.

Sentences should be short and contain a single thought. The first word is capitalized and there is a period at the end. Don't worry about any other punctuation if you don't know how to use it properly. Capital letters to begin a sentence and a period at the end gets you about 90% of the way there. Anyone who can't forgive the last 10% is too uptight for you to write to anyway.

Write sentences that relate together until you complete your thought. That is a paragraph. Paragraphs are separated by a hard stop. Paragraphs are the stop signs of reading. If you don't place them properly the words will keep piling up until they make the reader's eye crash.

Do not capitalize any word other than the first word in the sentence unless it is a proper noun. A proper noun is a name like Bill Smith, Winchester Cathedral, or the United States of America. Words like bill, state or cathedral are common nouns so they don't get capitalized. The State of Wisconsin is a proper noun. But saying that you live in a cold weather state and have a big heating bill does not require any capitalization. Do not capitalize a word just because it seems important. If in doubt, don't capitalize.

Apostrophes are easy to use properly. For the word "its" or "it's" you use apostrophes as a contraction of "it is". If it makes sense to say "is" instead of the apostrophe, you use "it's". It's that easy.

Likewise, you use an apostrophe as a contraction of "has" or "have" to show something is possessive. Saying "Bill's car is fast," means that Bill has a car that's (that is) fast. If you can't say "has" in place of the 's, it means you should not use an apostrophe. Do not tack an apostrophe on words just because they end in an s. The word "cars" doesn't need an apostrophe unless you're talking about the car's (car has) tires.

After you write something, read it back to yourself. Does it make sense to someone who has no other information than what you have just written? If not, edit your work until it does.

And finally, spell check is everywhere. It is free. Use it. It's (it is) not perfect but its programming is very good.

I disagree.

It's not easy to write well, and most (+90%) do it very poorly.