I once had this girlfriend who was doing a Phd, and i was just a scummy Masters student. She was also Taiwanese and about 8 years younger compared to me. Anyway, she got this great idea that we would both do separate IQ tests so that we could see how smart we both were.
Anyway we did the tests and I got a rather good score - much better compared to hers, and needlessly to say, she was very upset, and in fact, rather cranky about it. She kept saying, how could I be smarter compared to her as she was doing a Phd in cancer research and I only had a Masters etc, she also said that she went to a private school and that her father paid so much money for her education. I told her that i went to public school in regional Australia and just mucked around and never studied and spent my afternoons at the river - whereras she spent her afternoons in cram schools and was basically a 12-14 hour a day student. I was happy with the result, but boy, she was peeved.
Oh well. She is long gone now and as far as i know is working in some hospital in the States as a cancer specialist.
I want to add extra to the comment about car forums. A few years back, i was doing up my beloved ZH Fairlane and so i joined a forum for people doing up classic Fords. Not wanting to sound like an intellectual snob or anything, but i got no joy in that forum at all. The posts were hard to read, hard to understand and full of "lazy talk" and abbreviations etc.
In addition, as a favour, i once had to set up and monitor a forum for a son of one of my friends. The son is into online games and nothing else and is one of those kids who's only social life and life in general is spent in front of a computer playing games. I wanted to to monitor and administer it as it was being set up on one of my servers and there was no way i going to allow other people to administer something that was on one of my servers. Anyway, i made a habit of reading all the posts (as all good administrators do), and i couldn't understand much of what was being posted. No grammar, no punctuations and no structure.
The spelling was atrocious, and to be frank, their was nothing much at all that would qualify as a well meaning post. It really made me wonder what the literary strength is from the teenagers of today.
Just my words.
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