Language Use

[Saintaw]

Heh, Midnight, Ever worked for a LARGE US company ? I did, and I remember one of the 1st things I've been told :

If your Email has more than 5 Lines, no onw will bother reading it...

Now why do U think W type Like this ? It's caus' we type in the txt buffer in flight and ya have to pick : type fast (***666) or Die ...

Saw

[Naso]

 

Originally posted by Dinger:
(Very interesting argumentations)

Dinger
(Still bitter about the introduction to an Italian High School Ancient Greek textbook, which described Amurrican as "grugniti articolati")

Eh eh eh eh!!  

A proposito di pregiudizi, e sciovinismo, eh?

 

Grugniti articolati, lol.

[Jimdandy]

 

Originally posted by ZOSO:
I would tend to blame our instant gratification culture before I point a finger at the education system.  And I would venture to say that our instant gratification culture is primarily the result of almost constant propaganda convincing us that if only we can collect more stuff, we'll be happy.  When in truth, all we need is each other.

To get back to the subject, we're too busy collecting stuff, or making more money to collect more stuff, to take the time to actually listen to a detailed description of what is going on in someone else's life.  If you can't say it in 10 words or less, they don't have time to listen.

Damn Zo I couldn't have said it better myself. TV and credit cards were the first major blows in a long line of things that occurred primarily after WWII that put us in that frame of mind. It's not that TV or credit cards in themselves are bad. It's how they are used in combination with a bill of goods sold to the general public to get them out to buy stuff they don't need. My god look at all the spare bed rooms and garages in the US filled with perfectly good stuff that was boxed up for the new version. As the song says "We want the world and we want it now!" or "I can't get no satisfaction"   Those are both from the 60's and the problem was felt to be bad then. Don't you just love all the "...useless information supposed to drive my imagination..."