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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've always thought English majors were people who weren't strong in any other subject area.  I didn't consider them "not smart," but I assumed they weren't well rounded, and couldn't "cut it" in a "real major."[/quote]

Well since assumptions are almost always right, particularly when they about vast groups of people, yours must be spot on.[/quote]

OP asked a question and I answered.  I didn't say I was correct, just what I thought.  If they can get a job that pays well with an English major, then what anyone else thinks is irrelevant.  Heck, it's irrelevant even if they can't find a job. 
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Wow.

[quote][i]"I didn't say I was correct".[/i][/quote]

Well, that sure is helpful.

What other wild speculation you can't defend and has no use or purpose would you like to proffer?[/quote]

You obviously don't understand the meaning of the word "considered."  OP asked if English majors are "considered" smart.  I responded with how I viewed them. That's what considered means. OP didn't ask for facts backed up with supporting data.  My "wild speculation" specifically responded to OP's question.  Sorry you have a problem with my direct response to the question posed.  [/quote]

What I have a problem with was well explained in my two prior posts.  [b]No one asked YOU for YOUR opinion[/b].  Also, it was a purposefully inflammatory trollbait question and you barged into it like a puppy down the stairs. You should stop. [/quote]

[b]Sorry, but you don't get to dictate who gives their opinions on a public discussion board. [/b] OP asked a question on a public board.  By doing so, she opened the discussion to ANYONE interested in responding, including ME.  You don't like my response? Too bad.  That's what I think.  I think philosophy majors are incredibly smart and would have said so if that's what OP asked.  OP asked about English majors, so I gave my opinion on them, which seems to have made you very defensive and unhinged.  [/quote]

You are another person who did not learn about irony, which is dripping from your own post.

My opinion, which you agree is totally legitimate to be posted here, is that your opinion on this topic is ignorant, unhelpful, and should be ignored.

So, we're all good now?

/not an English major, but I believe I'd be better educated if I had been.
// this forum is a place where people discount the entire Western canon including Shakespeare, Chaucer, Dickens, Whitman, etc and say people who study these things are "not smart".  Comically ignorant, really. [/quote]

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