Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

How To Write Like Mark Zuckerberg

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the read-between-the-suspension-points dept.

newguy77 found a story talking about the results of a linguistics expert being brought in on the Facebook ownership case. They claim the emails are faked since Zuckerberg uses apostrophes correctly and opens sentences more casually than the damning emails.

4 of 139 comments (clear)

  1. grammar nazis find work by corbettw · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So all those years of being a grammar nazi can result in actual gainful employment? Who knew?

    Also:

    They claim the emails are faked since he uses Apostrophes correctly

    But did he use Capitalization correctly?

    --
    God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
  2. Re:Not a Reliable Method by Abstrackt · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Zuckerburg's writing style of 2003 needs to be compared with emails of that era, not today. Furthermore, he could have been off on some random day in 2003 because he had a cold and wasn't thinking. This just isn't that reliable of method of determining authorship.

    It is a reliable method of creating doubt though. Once he has doubt on his side, the case becomes a lot more difficult for his opponent.

    --
    They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. - Terry Pratchett
  3. Re:Not a Reliable Method by RazzleFrog · · Score: 4, Informative

    According to the actual court document: " KNOWN writings used for comparison were various email writings of Mr. Zuckerbergexchanged with the Plaintiff and related parties during the time period as specified in the Amended Complaint, which totaled 35 emails

  4. Re:Who needs privacy when you've got PHP? by SharpFang · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The basic difference between the two is how they manage harvested data.

    So, you come to Google, "I have this gizmo for sale, help me sell it." and Google goes "Fine, we found 2000 customers who purchased your gizmo, ship the gizmos here and here (or let us handle it), and here's your money, after we took our cut."

    So, you come to Facebook, "I have this gizmo for sale, help me sell it." and Facebook goes "Fine, pay us our cut and here's your 20000000 records of our users data, emails, phones, home addresses, we guess at least 2000 of them are bound to be willing to buy your gizmo if you market it to them."

    It's definite oversimplification but it seems your data is much safer with Google than with Facebook.

    --
    45 5F E1 04 22 CA 29 C4 93 3F 95 05 2B 79 2A B2