I can't agree with you more! I am a help desk cubicle monkey, as well as a customer service representative (cashier) for a video rental store, and when i go from the highly educated world of information technology to the low brow world of video rental, I see udderly no difference in the way people speak. Sometimes its hard to understand what people want because if it. For example "d'ya'll got hitchin'" as opposed to " do you have the movie 'hitch'" (btw... i live in ohio, nobody has a real southern accent, but for some reason they all talk like that) I am glad i am not the only one who is noticing the downfall of english grammar and spelling.
The real question is, "is there anything we can do?"
I was once the administrator for a mass mail server that deals with the military and The Military Officers Association of America, and they had a newsletter that went out on friday, on which action would be taken on monday. I would say 80% of the addresses were aol, and 40% of the time i worked as such, our domain was blacklisted (even though we were whitelisted). AOL is a pain, maybe we should consider some other form of intelligence deciding which e-mails are spam and which are mission critical.
Did anyone actually go to the government website and take a look at this bill? It consists of two titles. The first being mostly about terrorism, and the ability of the government to erect walls and deport people they note as terrorists. The second part which consists of a few lines is about electronic ID.... interesting...
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Why hack a mac? Nobody does anything useful on them... ...aside from photoshop, and warcraft 3.
"genes which make someone analytical may also impair their social and communication skills"
Nerds and computer geeks have known this since the creation of computers, doesn't seem like big news to me... lol
I can't agree with you more! I am a help desk cubicle monkey, as well as a customer service representative (cashier) for a video rental store, and when i go from the highly educated world of information technology to the low brow world of video rental, I see udderly no difference in the way people speak. Sometimes its hard to understand what people want because if it. For example "d'ya'll got hitchin'" as opposed to " do you have the movie 'hitch'"
(btw... i live in ohio, nobody has a real southern accent, but for some reason they all talk like that)
I am glad i am not the only one who is noticing the downfall of english grammar and spelling.
The real question is, "is there anything we can do?"
I was once the administrator for a mass mail server that deals with the military and The Military Officers Association of America, and they had a newsletter that went out on friday, on which action would be taken on monday. I would say 80% of the addresses were aol, and 40% of the time i worked as such, our domain was blacklisted (even though we were whitelisted). AOL is a pain, maybe we should consider some other form of intelligence deciding which e-mails are spam and which are mission critical.
Did anyone actually go to the government website and take a look at this bill? It consists of two titles. The first being mostly about terrorism, and the ability of the government to erect walls and deport people they note as terrorists. The second part which consists of a few lines is about electronic ID.... interesting...