Love the sash idea. And maybe the blue check people can get a blue T-shirt that has a circle with a checkmark on the front. Because the more we can make Twitter like real life, the better. Of course, that would be an additional $8.
Awkward isn't the same as incorrect. realizing it, after HS we rely on our environment for reinforcement of what we learned in, in school about English. If all people see is incorrect English, they
will start repeating it. That's how we've ended up with the incorrect use of "impact" as a verb (now they're even putting an 's' on it...horrors), the incorrect "impactful" (called barbaric by experts), the incorrect "majorly," the redundant "these ones" and "those ones," the idiotic "than me" rather than the obviously correct 'taller than I (am)." Most articles on the Internet are badly phrased and technically incorrect and incorrectly punctuated. Use of English today is a real mess. Most journalists won't even use a dictionary. Acceptance of mediocrity, trophies for 'showing up,' 14 or 79 valedictorians in a class, GPAs over 4.0 w/a 4.0 system, advance placement courses as if exceptional have killed the pursuit of excellence. So, while colloquial has its place, that place should be obvious, so it isn't read and accepted as correct use of English.
Note: Had a lot of trouble typing this and correcting typos as system can't buffer keystrokes. Is it the website or my laptop? Thanks. BTW, shouldn't we be allowed to type two spaces where needed or appropriate instead of having young programmers, who don't know anything about reading aloud on radio for the visually impaired or how documents should look nor editing text, turn the Internet into a dictatorship? What ya think?
Beastbot wants to get rid of Twitter, so e-mails will be great again. Naah, that won't help anything. Time is our most precious commodity, and emails suck up too much of it. Just call or drop by. It's easier and faster.
Besides, our health as a society and as human beings depends on our getting back to in-person interaction . . . our own voices on the phone and our own bodies in proximity. Technology has some advantages sometimes, but its excess use is causing people to lose their humanity. And it, along with higher education, has encouraged people to become superficial thinkers driven and controlled by emotion. Nothing will cause our demise as a country and a society faster than that.
In the meantime, suspending some left-wingers for a time solely b/c of their thoughts --- just for the experience --- might trigger an epiphany for a few. Or is that wishful thinking?
TIP: "Those are all my ideas" is more correct in that context than saying "There are all my ideas." Our language is about time and place . . . where one is in relation to the message being conveyed. At the beginning = "Here are all my ideas" or "These are . . ." or "The following are . . ." At the end = past - "those" up above, "those" ideas I just described, becomes correct. Ciao`
Love the sash idea. And maybe the blue check people can get a blue T-shirt that has a circle with a checkmark on the front. Because the more we can make Twitter like real life, the better. Of course, that would be an additional $8.
Awkward isn't the same as incorrect. realizing it, after HS we rely on our environment for reinforcement of what we learned in, in school about English. If all people see is incorrect English, they
will start repeating it. That's how we've ended up with the incorrect use of "impact" as a verb (now they're even putting an 's' on it...horrors), the incorrect "impactful" (called barbaric by experts), the incorrect "majorly," the redundant "these ones" and "those ones," the idiotic "than me" rather than the obviously correct 'taller than I (am)." Most articles on the Internet are badly phrased and technically incorrect and incorrectly punctuated. Use of English today is a real mess. Most journalists won't even use a dictionary. Acceptance of mediocrity, trophies for 'showing up,' 14 or 79 valedictorians in a class, GPAs over 4.0 w/a 4.0 system, advance placement courses as if exceptional have killed the pursuit of excellence. So, while colloquial has its place, that place should be obvious, so it isn't read and accepted as correct use of English.
Note: Had a lot of trouble typing this and correcting typos as system can't buffer keystrokes. Is it the website or my laptop? Thanks. BTW, shouldn't we be allowed to type two spaces where needed or appropriate instead of having young programmers, who don't know anything about reading aloud on radio for the visually impaired or how documents should look nor editing text, turn the Internet into a dictatorship? What ya think?
Beastbot wants to get rid of Twitter, so e-mails will be great again. Naah, that won't help anything. Time is our most precious commodity, and emails suck up too much of it. Just call or drop by. It's easier and faster.
Besides, our health as a society and as human beings depends on our getting back to in-person interaction . . . our own voices on the phone and our own bodies in proximity. Technology has some advantages sometimes, but its excess use is causing people to lose their humanity. And it, along with higher education, has encouraged people to become superficial thinkers driven and controlled by emotion. Nothing will cause our demise as a country and a society faster than that.
In the meantime, suspending some left-wingers for a time solely b/c of their thoughts --- just for the experience --- might trigger an epiphany for a few. Or is that wishful thinking?
TIP: "Those are all my ideas" is more correct in that context than saying "There are all my ideas." Our language is about time and place . . . where one is in relation to the message being conveyed. At the beginning = "Here are all my ideas" or "These are . . ." or "The following are . . ." At the end = past - "those" up above, "those" ideas I just described, becomes correct. Ciao`
How to make Twitter Better: Get rid of it.
MAKE E-MAILS GREAT AGAIN