Prejudice City

Saturday, May 20, 2006

Get A Life PLEASE

In technical forums, someone posts information about a current problem, bug, vulnerability in Windows or MS Office. The one-joke ponies instantly ride in with a suggested "fix". If the problem is the OS, the fix is delete Windows and replace with Red Hat, Suse, Debian, FreeBSD ..whatever. If the problem is Office, the "fix" is OpenOffice.org. Why don't these ponies get a life?
As a kid, I often heard the cry "Shut Up! You sound like a cracked gramaphone!".
Given that many readers will not know what a gramaphone was/is - I will update it to "You are stuck in a FreezeFrame. Fast Forward Already!"

Saturday, May 13, 2006

When was education cancelled?

In discussion boards I have participated in, I have twice come across intelligent individuals writing "Here Here". There, there: I assume they mean "Hear, Hear".
Another piece of appalling english is "to little too late"???!!??
When was the idea of teaching people to use their mother tongue cancelled?
People repeating common sayings by ear with no intervention of a thinking process.
USE ENGLISH. IT IS A RICH LANGUAGE.