If they are half as useless as the average GP, lawyers are just a bunch of arrogant morons whose knowledge of an arcane and often ignored set of ridiculous laws leads them incorrectly to believe that they are intelligent and knowledgeable. They are, in fact, the modern equivalent of the ancient religious experts who presumed to tell us ordinary folk what magical processes had to be engaged in before eating a cow. We "lusers" have one thing over you "legal beagles." We can change a lightbulb without running it past the legal department, and we are just about fed up with you guys who think you can't reduce humanity to a bunch of rule-following mindless midgets.
I almost have to wonder if this isn't more of a typing test than an essay test. What are they planning on doing, marking it by machine? I know they use computers to scan for particular qualifications on resumes. Is this the next step?
There was a top executive at our company who would take three paragraphs to say what he could have said in one sentence, for example: Please charge your time on a daily basis so the government will pay us our money more rapidly and I can get a bigger bonus next year....
I have this from someone who is named Grammer, so I'm no expert, but I would suspect that grammer is a bit more specific, referring to someone who specifically grinds wheat flour, whereas a miller would grind various grains and even salt. Of course all grammers are millers, but all millers aren't necessarily grammers.
This reminds me of the various terms Eskimos have for snow. I imagine in a couple of hundred years people will be amazed at the number of words we have for a computer program.
"When I was teaching econ, I several times made the mistake of setting an essay test. It showed that the American students couldn't write. When I marked them down for incomprehensiblity, they were shocked! ``You should grade the econ, not the grammer.'' they said. Unfortunately, the grammer and organization was bad enough that there wasn't any coherent content to grade."
I have had the exact inverse of this experience. I took a college level (Johns Hopkins) economics final exam where I knew virtually nothing about the subject but expressed myself clearly and interestingly. I received a good grade with just a small note from the instructor suggesting I stick more closely to my subject.... I guess he was just happy to have something good to read for a change.
I wonder if something akin to those translation programs that ask you which of various choices you wish to use when they don't know what you want to say would be useful in a spell checking program. For example, you type "your"--the program asks you: "Do you want to talk about something that belongs to someone or do you wish to contract 'you are'?" Of course, you could turn if off if you did know the difference.
It's only ironic because it occurs in reality. Irony always presupposes a non-ironical real situation. That's why it so often flies over the heads of those with limited life experience.
Case in point: I wrote an entire book on the origin of gameboards. I proofread it myself. The professional publisher's editor caught ONE WORD misspelled twice, one "grammatical error" involving the use of "farther" rather than "further" in a metaphor, and a too long sentence that needed to be broken up into smaller sentences. I am not William Shakespeare. I was not even an English major. I did work as a hand compositor (setting type) for three years. I learned this stuff in GRAMMAR SCHOOL. If nobody's learning it there now, there's something wrong with the schools or there's something wrong with the students. I suspect a lot of it has to do with television.
A lot of this not-ending-a-sentence-with-a-preposition and not-starting-a-sentence-with-a-conjunction nonsense goes back to a failed 17th Century attempt to fashion English grammar after that of Latin. For every one of these rules there is a perfectly correct example from before the period of False Latinization. This silliness must be distinguished from true grammatical errors involving constructions that make it difficult or impossible to understand what the writer is trying to say. That is the key point here. Language is about communication. If it doesn't communicate well, it is BAD language.
The problem is you have to stop and think what the idiot's trying to REALLY say every time you hit a "your" when he means to say "you're." Spellcheck doesn't catch that kind of error. And every time you have to stop and decypher what the guy is saying you just get more and more annoyed and finally give up and do business with somebody else.
As for the bibble, you'll have to con-sult yer lokal religeous fannatical.
So now someone's going to write a program that ALWAYS capitalizes "I" and when you try to write "Hassan i Sabbah" you're going to have to turn the bloody thing off just to get the case right. This is what these idiots are doing to us. And, no, it's not just inability. It's often simple laziness. I have watched folks touch type a message and then hit [send] without even reading over what they just wrote. That's where all this "teh" nonsense comes from.
"When I hire people for my company," WHAT? The scary thing is that on this thread dedicated to halfway literate discourse you can't even manage to use complete sentences.
An interesting side note to this discussion. It turns out that 30% of the Kurds have the gene associated with being a Cohen (the hereditary priest class of the Jewish nation).
"Do you own, or have you ever owned, an electric razor? Have you ever used an electric razor to change your appearance during the commission of a felony? Have you ever been within shouting distance of a plastic surgean? Wipe that smile off your face, Sonny. You're confusing our sensing equipment."
Assuming you're not just being ironic (sorry, I don't speak Initialese), NO, they don't have to call the 800 number. They have maps. You know, those paper thingies with lines and symbols on them that let you figure out where the subway stops are and that kind of stuff? But the maps are wrong. This is because they are old, and apparently nobody bothered to update them as things were changed over the years. And, as someone else has pointed out, the water table in Florida is somewhere around your knees, so you have to bury everything at the same level. And it's not a good idea to install stuff above ground because of the weather--lots of cyclonic wind conditions and the like. So you either give the place back to the Seminole Indians, who had enough sense not to invent electricity, or you dig and hope you don't hit something.
Now the county keeps talking about using satellites and GPS, which gives you some insight into the state of THEIR neural network, so I have to conclude that the fault lies mainly with those same officials for not keeping the maps current.
The company I work for runs everything overhead, including water, cooling, and sewage. And when the ceiling starts leaking the only way to tell whether it's the roof leaking or the sewage is by the smell....
You don't need fiber to do away with 56K. I have 768K over copper.
By the way, most of the problems, according to the article, result from incorrect maps, and short of approaching the job like archaeologists, it's just too hard to miss something that's not supposed to be there.
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"You look just as dumb as a luser looks to you."
If they are half as useless as the average GP, lawyers are just a bunch of arrogant morons whose knowledge of an arcane and often ignored set of ridiculous laws leads them incorrectly to believe that they are intelligent and knowledgeable. They are, in fact, the modern equivalent of the ancient religious experts who presumed to tell us ordinary folk what magical processes had to be engaged in before eating a cow. We "lusers" have one thing over you "legal beagles." We can change a lightbulb without running it past the legal department, and we are just about fed up with you guys who think you can't reduce humanity to a bunch of rule-following mindless midgets.
I almost have to wonder if this isn't more of a typing test than an essay test. What are they planning on doing, marking it by machine? I know they use computers to scan for particular qualifications on resumes. Is this the next step?
There was a top executive at our company who would take three paragraphs to say what he could have said in one sentence, for example: Please charge your time on a daily basis so the government will pay us our money more rapidly and I can get a bigger bonus next year....
I have this from someone who is named Grammer, so I'm no expert, but I would suspect that grammer is a bit more specific, referring to someone who specifically grinds wheat flour, whereas a miller would grind various grains and even salt. Of course all grammers are millers, but all millers aren't necessarily grammers.
This reminds me of the various terms Eskimos have for snow. I imagine in a couple of hundred years people will be amazed at the number of words we have for a computer program.
Well put. Hear! Hear! I counted five not including the last paragraph, which is apparently some kind of attempt at being ironic....
"When I was teaching econ, I several times made the mistake of setting an essay test. It showed that the American students couldn't write. When I marked them down for incomprehensiblity, they were shocked! ``You should grade the econ, not the grammer.'' they said. Unfortunately, the grammer and organization was bad enough that there wasn't any coherent content to grade."
I have had the exact inverse of this experience. I took a college level (Johns Hopkins) economics final exam where I knew virtually nothing about the subject but expressed myself clearly and interestingly. I received a good grade with just a small note from the instructor suggesting I stick more closely to my subject.... I guess he was just happy to have something good to read for a change.
A grammer is someone who grinds flour. The word survives as a surname but does not appear in most dictionaries.
Huh?
I wonder if something akin to those translation programs that ask you which of various choices you wish to use when they don't know what you want to say would be useful in a spell checking program. For example, you type "your"--the program asks you: "Do you want to talk about something that belongs to someone or do you wish to contract 'you are'?" Of course, you could turn if off if you did know the difference.
It's only ironic because it occurs in reality. Irony always presupposes a non-ironical real situation. That's why it so often flies over the heads of those with limited life experience.
Case in point: I wrote an entire book on the origin of gameboards. I proofread it myself. The professional publisher's editor caught ONE WORD misspelled twice, one "grammatical error" involving the use of "farther" rather than "further" in a metaphor, and a too long sentence that needed to be broken up into smaller sentences. I am not William Shakespeare. I was not even an English major. I did work as a hand compositor (setting type) for three years. I learned this stuff in GRAMMAR SCHOOL. If nobody's learning it there now, there's something wrong with the schools or there's something wrong with the students. I suspect a lot of it has to do with television.
A lot of this not-ending-a-sentence-with-a-preposition and not-starting-a-sentence-with-a-conjunction nonsense goes back to a failed 17th Century attempt to fashion English grammar after that of Latin. For every one of these rules there is a perfectly correct example from before the period of False Latinization. This silliness must be distinguished from true grammatical errors involving constructions that make it difficult or impossible to understand what the writer is trying to say. That is the key point here. Language is about communication. If it doesn't communicate well, it is BAD language.
The problem is you have to stop and think what the idiot's trying to REALLY say every time you hit a "your" when he means to say "you're." Spellcheck doesn't catch that kind of error. And every time you have to stop and decypher what the guy is saying you just get more and more annoyed and finally give up and do business with somebody else.
As for the bibble, you'll have to con-sult yer lokal religeous fannatical.
So now someone's going to write a program that ALWAYS capitalizes "I" and when you try to write "Hassan i Sabbah" you're going to have to turn the bloody thing off just to get the case right. This is what these idiots are doing to us. And, no, it's not just inability. It's often simple laziness. I have watched folks touch type a message and then hit [send] without even reading over what they just wrote. That's where all this "teh" nonsense comes from.
"When I hire people for my company," WHAT? The scary thing is that on this thread dedicated to halfway literate discourse you can't even manage to use complete sentences.
prolly?
An interesting side note to this discussion. It turns out that 30% of the Kurds have the gene associated with being a Cohen (the hereditary priest class of the Jewish nation).
"Do you own, or have you ever owned, an electric razor? Have you ever used an electric razor to change your appearance during the commission of a felony? Have you ever been within shouting distance of a plastic surgean? Wipe that smile off your face, Sonny. You're confusing our sensing equipment."
"the abuse-of-tablesness."
Could you diagram that clause so I will have some idea what you are trying to say?
"I" don't intend to have anything to DO with the task. I just need to know whether to put a wastebasket under the drip or evacuate the department....
Yeah, they should absolutely have one of them new-fangy 'lectric plastic pipe detectors... Read the friggin' article!
Assuming you're not just being ironic (sorry, I don't speak Initialese), NO, they don't have to call the 800 number. They have maps. You know, those paper thingies with lines and symbols on them that let you figure out where the subway stops are and that kind of stuff? But the maps are wrong. This is because they are old, and apparently nobody bothered to update them as things were changed over the years. And, as someone else has pointed out, the water table in Florida is somewhere around your knees, so you have to bury everything at the same level. And it's not a good idea to install stuff above ground because of the weather--lots of cyclonic wind conditions and the like. So you either give the place back to the Seminole Indians, who had enough sense not to invent electricity, or you dig and hope you don't hit something.
Now the county keeps talking about using satellites and GPS, which gives you some insight into the state of THEIR neural network, so I have to conclude that the fault lies mainly with those same officials for not keeping the maps current.
If you'd actually read the article, you'd realise that the maps are bad, so all the spray paint in the world ain't gonna do the trick....
The company I work for runs everything overhead, including water, cooling, and sewage. And when the ceiling starts leaking the only way to tell whether it's the roof leaking or the sewage is by the smell....
You don't need fiber to do away with 56K. I have 768K over copper.
By the way, most of the problems, according to the article, result from incorrect maps, and short of approaching the job like archaeologists, it's just too hard to miss something that's not supposed to be there.