Brilliance is no excuse for inability to communicate your thoughts.
What use is intelligence if you can't put it to good use, or express said intelligence?
In order to truly live up to the connotation of intelligence, not the definition (because connotations are what society uses, not definitions in the least), you have to be able to reform your ideas so that society, and yes, most certainly formal society, can understand them.
Anyone who is 17 and raised in the northwest suburbs should know how to spell. If the don't, they're a fucking idiot. I don't care what skills they have.
i guess i have just been thinking about how much we all don't know; how can we ever be at a level where we can judge what others do and do not and should know? things like vocab and spelling, maybe...i don't know.
how can we gauge the extent of anybody's thoughts without being them? we all have trouble expressing ourselves; maybe it's an issue of correct expression and use of the mind.
i doubt anyone would disagree with you there, when laid out that way.
but of course, we cannot "be" anyone, and so we ARE completely forced to judge. it cannot possibly, and should never, be avoided in certain situations.
think of if you were an employer and your two potential workers for an office job were alike in every way except a few: person A was articulate, quick on his feet, and knew english usage perfectly. person B stuttered, used improper slang, stumbled when questioned, and couldn't figure out the whole "your/you're" deal to save his life.
who is going to pick person B?
perhaps person B actually has superior ability, but how are we ever going to know? grammar/spelling/vocab, as you say, shouldn't be used unconditionally, but they do serve as a fairly accurate abstract a lot of the time.
our biggest problem is, having chosen our abstract too readily, being unable to keep from carrying it over into irrelevant aspects of life.
that is a problem. i agree with you. but i don't see any other way.
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YES WE DO.
If someone spells "Saturday" wrong, I'm gonna judge the shit out of their intelligence, and don't tell me I don't have a right to.
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there are many brilliant people who can't spell.
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What use is intelligence if you can't put it to good use, or express said intelligence?
In order to truly live up to the connotation of intelligence, not the definition (because connotations are what society uses, not definitions in the least), you have to be able to reform your ideas so that society, and yes, most certainly formal society, can understand them.
Anyone who is 17 and raised in the northwest suburbs should know how to spell. If the don't, they're a fucking idiot. I don't care what skills they have.
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does this mean you're a 'fucking idiot'?
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all INTELLIGENT people do.
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I like your user picture, you know.
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there we go.
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i guess i have just been thinking about how much we all don't know; how can we ever be at a level where we can judge what others do and do not and should know? things like vocab and spelling, maybe...i don't know.
how can we gauge the extent of anybody's thoughts without being them? we all have trouble expressing ourselves; maybe it's an issue of correct expression and use of the mind.
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but of course, we cannot "be" anyone, and so we ARE completely forced to judge. it cannot possibly, and should never, be avoided in certain situations.
think of if you were an employer and your two potential workers for an office job were alike in every way except a few: person A was articulate, quick on his feet, and knew english usage perfectly. person B stuttered, used improper slang, stumbled when questioned, and couldn't figure out the whole "your/you're" deal to save his life.
who is going to pick person B?
perhaps person B actually has superior ability, but how are we ever going to know? grammar/spelling/vocab, as you say, shouldn't be used unconditionally, but they do serve as a fairly accurate abstract a lot of the time.
our biggest problem is, having chosen our abstract too readily, being unable to keep from carrying it over into irrelevant aspects of life.
that is a problem. i agree with you.
but i don't see any other way.
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