On May 31, 2007, at 9:06 PM, Jeffrey Kaplan wrote:
> Hello, Richard E Johnson, MD.
> On Thu, 31 May 2007 20:50:28 -0500 you said:
>>> Jeffrey Kaplan wrote:
>>> I really do worry about whether my children will be able to
>>> spell at
>>> all, in this world of text messaging...
> No, I did not write that. And I'm getting rather tired of having to
> tell people to WATCH THEIR ATTRIBUTIONS!
>
> Jeffrey Kaplan
Mr. Kaplan,
I do certainly acknowledge the error - after looking back through
about 20 E-mails from today, I first discovered indirect/partial
evidence, and then direct/conclusive evidence, that you are correct.
The attribution in my mail should have been to Mr. Kamens. I hadn't
noticed that you had been particularly distinguished from others in
having your name attributed to statements which were not your own,
but I can certainly understand that such an action could be quite
aggravating. My apologies to you.
Like him, I do, in fact, worry about not so much my children (see
previous post) in this regard, but, as Don Ferguson (I believe -
correction please, if needed) noted recently, I am deeply concerned
about very large numbers of other current and former children. These
are those who are exposed to so much illiterate trash from the media
as well as frequently from their own "teachers", that it may be very
difficult to actually obtain a quality education these days in many
places. The quality of education in the public schools by and large
in my current temporary home of Oklahoma would be frankly laughable
were it not so pitifully sad. A "career" in "Computer Science" around
here seems to be regarded largely as ending up as a computer game
programmer. I won't go on in such an off-topic thread, but at least
it's vaguely related to computing.
Dick Johnson
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