The Shame and the Glory

This is a comment I saw on a blog this afternoon:

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I'm really hoping that English is not this poster's first, or even third, language. Because, wow. Seeing this made me happy. Because as badly as I think I write sometimes, I've got nothing compared to the above.

Now, I am not against typos. I even commit some sometimes. My brother informs me gleefully every time he finds one. But I do ask, if you want someone to read your stuff, that you not inflict them with word vomit. But that is both the glory and the shame of the Internet: people who refuse to think, or even proofread, have a voice. Thank you, Al Gore, for inventing the Internet, where all of humanity's verbal gaffes show up in print.