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| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5123 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes  2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 9 of 41 26 June 2010 at 6:25am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Basically, as Pastulio6267 said, "haters gonna hate" :) Hopefully these comments just make him work harder with languages and better himself, I don't know much about him but I think he's smart enough to realize that youtube comments shouldn't be taken seriously.
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| mcjon77 Senior Member United States Joined 6407 days ago 193 posts - 248 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Egyptian), French | Message 10 of 41 26 June 2010 at 7:29am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I wonder how many other polyglots are reluctant to post videos after seeing the garbage guys like Moses, Steve Kaufman, and Richard have to put up with.
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| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5465 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 11 of 41 26 June 2010 at 8:07am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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People do write stupid comments on youtube. They write even worse things in youtube private messages. Moses says it helps him grow a thick skin, but at the same time I am sure some of the stupid messages must sting for a while.
I spoke to a polyglot recently who received a very inaccurate comment of a very personal nature on his youtube channel, and my mouth dropped open at the willingness of somebody to write such things and (I presume) get satisfaction from it. Even my own humble channel has already had a "stalker", with somebody writing very offensive messages about my physical appearance, my "gay" voice, and - more strangely wild guesses at my sexual preferences. Of course, we all know these things are nonsense, but I saw somewhere a claim that a negative comment has 20 times the emotional impact and retention in memory of a positive one. I don't know if the figures are true, but I am sure the spirit of it is true. The only thing you can do is keep telling yourself "that is just some moron being stupid" and try your best to ignore it. 18 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5807 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 12 of 41 26 June 2010 at 9:46am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I have very little to say about Moses.
If he refuses to take the time to plan what he's going to say, I'm not going to waste my time listening to him waffle, hesitate, deviate, repeat stuff etc. I haven't attempted to watch one of his videos since he responded to a thread here by posting half an hour of unscripted ramblings on YouTube, and after half an hour I found out he hadn't responded to the points I'd raised. I just thought that was so utterly antisocial that I didn't want to have anything to do with him. (In fact, I had a lot harsher words about it at the time....) 17 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Thatzright Diglot Senior Member Finland Joined 5468 days ago 202 posts - 311 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English Studies: French, Swedish, German, Russian | Message 13 of 41 26 June 2010 at 11:43am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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95% of all YouTube videos I view have absolute nonsense written in the comments, and I'm sure that Moses' videos are no exception. I don't also quite believe that these people are serious when writing these, but since it's the internet, why not write stuff like that, right? I mean, don't let me even get started on what I've seen on political videos... In general, HTLAL is one of, if not the most civilized discussion forum I've come across on the internet, so I'm sure that comments like those will seem rather rude.
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| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5260 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 14 of 41 26 June 2010 at 11:47am | IP Logged | ||||||||
But you just couldn't resist saying a little more here. 25 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5634 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 15 of 41 26 June 2010 at 11:55am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I don't think he's a bad person and it's certainly not my problem what he posts on youtube and I would not dream of posting a nasty comment on his channel.
I don't think his skills in all these languages he "speaks" run very deep though, and I don't think he is great a model for others to follow, unless being a youtube sensation is their motivation for learning languages. What I heard him say seemed very like a re-hash of Pimsleur which is not my idea of useful language skills. As I have said before, I believe in quality, not quantity when it comes to languages learning. MMc has the opposite approach, I believe. And like others said, it's not just him, there are plenty of people like that. Personally I struggle to see their motivation but if that's what they want to spend their time on, it's their problem. 19 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6068 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 16 of 41 26 June 2010 at 2:48pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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The Internet, unfortunately, really streamlines the process of writing poison-pen letters. Alongside its many benefits, it can bring out the worst in people.
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