User talk:FlightTime
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I think the discussion there has run its course, but I would like to respond to your latest remark.
You don't seem to have quite gotten my point about "picking things up along the way". What I was trying to say is that while someone who already understands English can pick up policies and best practices as they contribute, they won't be able to learn English by doing vandalism patrol. Since teaching English is not in any way the purpose of Wikipedia that is hardly surprising. I know we all try to be nice to newbies, but when one runs into someone who just denies the shortcomings of their relative abilities it is actually doing a disservice, both to them and to the project, to just encourage them to keep going as they have been.
I've seen this exact same behavior before, more than once. A user will parrot back words or phrases out of your comments back to you, but in a way that doesn't make sense because they are pretending to know something they clearly do not. That is dishonest, unhelpful behavior and I won't pretend I don't see it just to avoid hurting the feelings of the dishonest unhelpful person. I suppose you see yourself as taking an ethical stand on this. Perhaps now you understand that I see my stance the same way.
I spoke the truth, without resorting to over-the-top hyperbole about a bad day for Wikipedia or likening a blunt but entirely truthful comment to physically harming someone. Beeblebrox (talk) 23:12, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
Patrick Stewart article
Would Brits actually say "While Patrick Stewart was 17 he saw Peter O'Toole appear in Hamlet"? Wouldn't they say "When he was 17, ..."?