TDG CEM Day 7

[greygirlbeast]

In Rhode Island, the meteorologists employ a twenty-sided die. They roll it each morning, once for each of the ten days to come. On each side is printed something like, "Rain" or "Snow" or "Partly Cloudy." Or "Godzilla." And then they tell us what the die said. Ergo, they are almost always wrong. Today is a good example. Mostly sunny out there, and

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[martianmooncrab]

the meteorologists employ a twenty-sided die

weather guessers, out here in Oregon, we go with Rain or No Rain, so they only have a 50/50 chance of being right.

[r_darkstorm]

the meteorologists employ a twenty-sided die. I often wonder if they don't do the same or similar here. They're seldom right about even the temperature.

And as to IM/1337/chat speak... I'm the type that spells out everything correctly, 100% of the time. And when people I associate with do not, I tend to not associate with them for long. Proper grammar and spelling belong everywhere, not just in novels.

[greygirlbeast]

And as to IM/1337/chat speak... I'm the type that spells out everything correctly, 100% of the time. And when people I associate with do not, I tend to not associate with them for long. Proper grammar and spelling belong everywhere, not just in novels.

We are fighting a losing battle.

[opalblack]

Again with the deliberate bad English. It's one thing to type fast and loose in chat, it's another entirely to wilfully mangle the mother tongue for the sake of image. The lowest-common-denominator, anti-intellectualism of it offends me.

It may be that it offends me more than it should because I have witnessed a steep decline in educational standards over the last decade and a half, to the point where the children misspell basic words like "fuck" on the toilet walls at the universities, and try to justify using this 'net speak to write their assignments.

I mean, honestly. I don't care how clever your thesis is, if it reads like the scratchings of a five-year-old mental patient smearing poo on the walls, then take it away.

It might bother me less if I went to uni straight out of high-school, when school-leavers could still actually read. Or perhaps it doesn't bother me enough.

[greygirlbeast]

it's another entirely to wilfully mangle the mother tongue for the sake of image. The lowest-common-denominator, anti-intellectualism of it offends me.

They glare at us with the blank eyes of bovines and tell us we just don't get it, n00bz.

[opalblack]

I don't want to get it, they may take "it" away and kindly stop waving it about in public.

[poesillchild]

Even my 17-year-old daugther, who doesn't spell that well, often comments on mispelled words in texts she receives from friends. Maybe, there is dim hope. I'd be happy if she'd read more. She does what she wants and actually reads a few books a year.

Thirty plus years ago when I was her age, I read all the time, Burroughs, Bradbury, Howard, you're familiar with the list. If it seems I've wandered, I apologize. My point is if you read books you may actually acquire a concern for the image others have of you when you communicate via the written word. Merely my opinion.

[greygirlbeast]

Merely my opinion.

Never do this. State your opinion, which is obviously such. Do not qualify, literally, what you've said as your opinion. Put force behind your words.

[ladyblue56]

Godzilla weather must be what we had in April with the tornadoes and storms.

My Bullshit Tolerance Level has been non-existent for years. Welcome to the Club.