Cursive writing is fading skill, but so what?
Simon,
You are not going to send the boss an "ebonics" or tweet monthly report
and think you will ever climb the corporate ladder above "trainee"
You work at Sheraton, Ministry of Health, Stanbic, MTN or Warid or
Shell or even my small company and you send words below ....
Lst mnth the seva crushed 2wice nd MS outlk did nt wrk 4 7usrs
but ISP lnk was OK
...... as your monthly report to the head of IT and you think you are
headed to replace the Head of IT in this lifetime or the next???!!
I would say if you believe that then you should stop sniffing the
white powder and get into rehab.
You will be labeled ignorant or barely literate, or worse.
If you think that the heroes of the next generation should the Steve
Jobs, bill gates, the Google Guys, Linus or even old guys like Buffet
and create wealth and industry and that is how they write a request
for funding to a venture capital firm
or even how they write a company profile or business proposal to
present to a bank!!!
The guy who creates twitter or google does not care that millions or
billions of illiterate people who cannot spell use it and he/she
makes money
But do not think that he/she is as illiterate as the users.
Kiggs
On Oct 8, 2009, at 6:35 PM, [email protected] wrote:
I want to assume that message was sent from a mobile device. That
should be
expected from a QWERTY keyboard 1/3 the size of a credit card along
with
twitter's 140 character limit... no spell check?
Brace yourself for more of those 'ebonics' tweets. Twitter Inc. is
a $1 billion industry and it's here stay.
Cursive writing is fading skill, but so what?
Fewer schools emphasize ‘penmanship’ as computer use increases
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32925695/ns/us_news-education/
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 11:08:10AM +0100, Daniel Bwente wrote:
A Techie or any one should have good communication skills and
better sense
to gauge their recipient, the student in question lacked both
seeing as they
were addressing a lecturer, ignoring the email achieves nothing
for the
student other than a perceived sense of "Lecturers don't return
our emails"
and we know how fast a lie spreads, once this specific one gets on
the move
even the well heeled students are reluctant to email simply
because they
heard so and so does not return emails, whose to blame is any
one's choice,
blaming IM applications reminds of me of how many times have we
caught
ourselves trying to remember a spelling when actually putting pen
to paper,
we are all used to auto correct and spellchecker we have lost
touch with the
basics so we might as well as blame computers :-) and hey who says
the guy
teaching me can't be a drinking mate, pass by Wandegeya Post
Office in the
evening and you will meet fellows who believe this is the rule.
What we are experiencing is at best a side effect of computing,
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Wire James
<[email protected]>wrote:
Disappointing I should say. Bagye, it is very embarrassing for a
student to
fail to draw the line between serious communication and shirty
(unserious)
communication. If I were in your shoes, I would ignore that email
until
he/she writes in formal English as per the J.A Bright rules.
While doing a
techie assignment recently online, I was asked to come up with a
5000 word
document on a topic. Imagine if I had used such despicable
lingua, would my
lecturer have looked at me twice?
A big shame and please lets not heap the blame on the teachers
only, but
also sms, chatting, twitter, facebook, YouTube e.t.c. When he/she
comes to
your office, assure them how you have never been and will never
be their
drinking mate because that form of communication can only be
tolerated by
brains that are on leave.
Wire
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 08:54 +0300, Paul Bagyenda wrote:
MIT reignites the old debate by nixing the 500-word application
essay.
Word salad here:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/10/07/0015204/MIT-Axes-the-500-
Word-Application-Essay?art_pos=25
Passion here: http://tech.mit.edu/V129/N39/bayley.html
I offer this extract from an email I received the other day from a
student. Tweeterised, is what we might start calling it:
--
heelo sir , am XXX yo student in YYY i just kindly
want to help get acces to the sample test .
on ma email inbox, if posble .
, i'll be glad wen ma request z put into into yo kind
consideration.
thx
--
Views anyone?
P.
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