BOF Announcement - Netnews User Interfaces (yet again)
Raymond Shaw
raymond at utpsych.toronto.edu
Thu Jun 8 07:39:24 AEST 1989
In article <695 at galaxia.Newport.RI.US> dave at galaxia.Newport.RI.US (David H. Brierley) writes:
>
>Pardon me for being overly picky today, this just struck me as a humorous
>tip of a frightening iceberg. Don't they teach English in our schools
but mixed metaphors are ok?
>anymore? With the use of computers becoming more prevalent in todays
Isn't it "today's?"
>society the proper use of English, or lack thereof, by computer
"society," not just "society"
>programmers is going to play an increasingly important role in the
>education of our young people. We are sending out a message that proper
>use of English is not something to strive towards. I'm not saying that I
"toward which to strive"
>am perfect
God, I hope not!
> or that everyone should be perfect and I don't mean to imply
>that Erik or Elliot are particularly bad. I just think that the proper
>use of English, including proper spelling and making sure you are using
^^^
>the correct word, is something that we all need to pay more attention to.
^^
1. And I guess that consistency is completely irrelevant.
To whom are you addressing this sentence. Don't you really mean to say:
" ... making sure that one uses ... that one needs to"
or " ... making sure that we are ... " and so on?
2. " ... is something to which we all need to pay more attention."
(this is at least your second violation of ending sentences with
a preposition).
>Would you want your children learning English grammar and spelling by
>reading netnews?
Certainly not by reading your articles. Give me a break.
> How about by reading some of the technical manuals that
>I have had the pleasure to read or the output of some of the programs I
>have seen? I think knot! :-)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I, for one, am not amused.
-Ray Shaw
raymond at psych.toronto.edu
p.s. For those interested in contacting the first in this series to
flame on spelling/grammar, I have included this person's signature
below:
>David H. Brierley
>Home: dave at galaxia.Newport.RI.US {rayssd,xanth,lazlo,mirror}!galaxia!dave
>Work: dhb at rayssd.ray.com {sun,decuac,gatech,necntc,ukma}!rayssd!dhb
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