People are terrible
Aug. 5th, 2018 01:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
white_hartSeen on the Internet in the last 24 hours:
1. On a blog post introducing a new knitting design: “I love this pattern, but I wish you’d designed it for a different weight of yarn as I don’t have enough fingering weight.”
2. On the same post, in response to the blogger mentioning a recent change in her appearance, multiple people assuming pregnancy and one person saying “congratulations, but please don’t flood us with baby knitting patterns now”. (I assumed radical hairstyle change, which turns out to be the actual case. Fortunately the blogger is childfree by choice.)
(ETA: and now someone has commented on the post with the new hair asking if she donated her long hair to Locks of Love. Why would a U.K.-based blogger be donating her hair to a US charity, ffs?)
3. On a post using a word that means different things in different versions of English, a number of people from the country of the poster’s birth (but not the one they currently reside in) popping up in comments to make snippy remarks about how Word means X in their country, but if the poster meant Y...
Some days I think the human race deserves its inevitable doom, though I wish I didn’t have to be part of it.
1. On a blog post introducing a new knitting design: “I love this pattern, but I wish you’d designed it for a different weight of yarn as I don’t have enough fingering weight.”
2. On the same post, in response to the blogger mentioning a recent change in her appearance, multiple people assuming pregnancy and one person saying “congratulations, but please don’t flood us with baby knitting patterns now”. (I assumed radical hairstyle change, which turns out to be the actual case. Fortunately the blogger is childfree by choice.)
(ETA: and now someone has commented on the post with the new hair asking if she donated her long hair to Locks of Love. Why would a U.K.-based blogger be donating her hair to a US charity, ffs?)
3. On a post using a word that means different things in different versions of English, a number of people from the country of the poster’s birth (but not the one they currently reside in) popping up in comments to make snippy remarks about how Word means X in their country, but if the poster meant Y...
Some days I think the human race deserves its inevitable doom, though I wish I didn’t have to be part of it.
Re: Long comment, sorry
Date: 2018-08-06 03:03 pm (UTC)Yes, it's the apparent obliviousness to the possibility that words might be used differently in other Englishes that annoys me, especially when it almost always comes across as fake - I have seen conversations where one person was not aware of the meaning the other person intended, and they tend to go along the lines of "I'm a bit confused - where I'm from, X means Thing, but it sounds like you're using it to mean OtherThing, is that right? If so, my answer is Y" rather than just answering as if X was being used to mean Thing when that clearly makes no sense. It always comes across as very One True Way and utterly dismissive of non-US Englishes.
Re: Long comment, sorry
Date: 2018-08-06 03:06 pm (UTC)