You got it right. Some FReepers and others are quickly throwing away American culture by their disregard of American English. Noah Webster was a great patriotic American. He wrote his dictionary for the home, school and church. Some folks here trash the language and it’s usage, apparently not realizing that the language is one thing that can communicate American and it’s heritage. Then some rail against the use of ebonics. The use of standard American English unites us. Some FReepers fight against that.
It’s really one of the things that bothers me about the Obamaculture we are turning into.
If I make a mistake or you make a mistake, it’s a mistake all the same. No big deal. Not the end of the world. We could say “thanks for pointing that out, FRiend!” and move along.
But instead, people get their hackles up, and attack the other. “It’s not my mistake, it’s YOUR PROBLEM for pointing it out?”
Everything’s upside down.