A Techie or any one should have good communication skills and better sense to gauge their recipient, the student in question lacked both seeing as they were addressing a lecturer, ignoring the email achieves nothing for the student other than a perceived sense of "Lecturers don't return our emails" and we know how fast a lie spreads, once this specific one gets on the move even the well heeled students are reluctant to email simply because they heard so and so does not return emails, whose to blame is any one's choice, blaming IM applications reminds of me of how many times have we caught ourselves trying to remember a spelling when actually putting pen to paper, we are all used to auto correct and spellchecker we have lost touch with the basics so we might as well as blame computers :-) and hey who says the guy teaching me can't be a drinking mate, pass by Wandegeya Post Office in the evening and you will meet fellows who believe this is the rule.
What we are experiencing is at best a side effect of computing, On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Wire James <[email protected]>wrote: > > Disappointing I should say. Bagye, it is very embarrassing for a student to > fail to draw the line between serious communication and shirty (unserious) > communication. If I were in your shoes, I would ignore that email until > he/she writes in formal English as per the J.A Bright rules. While doing a > techie assignment recently online, I was asked to come up with a 5000 word > document on a topic. Imagine if I had used such despicable lingua, would my > lecturer have looked at me twice? > > A big shame and please lets not heap the blame on the teachers only, but > also sms, chatting, twitter, facebook, YouTube e.t.c. When he/she comes to > your office, assure them how you have never been and will never be their > drinking mate because that form of communication can only be tolerated by > brains that are on leave. > > Wire > > > On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 08:54 +0300, Paul Bagyenda wrote: > > MIT reignites the old debate by nixing the 500-word application essay. > > > > Word salad here: > http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/10/07/0015204/MIT-Axes-the-500-Word-Application-Essay?art_pos=25 > > Passion here: http://tech.mit.edu/V129/N39/bayley.html > > > > I offer this extract from an email I received the other day from a > student. Tweeterised, is what we might start calling it: > > -- > > heelo sir , am XXX yo student in YYY i just kindly > want to help get acces to the sample test . > on ma email inbox, if posble . > , i'll be glad wen ma request z put into into yo kind consideration. > thx > > -- > > > > Views anyone? > > > > P. > > > > _______________________________________________LUG mailing > [email protected]http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug%LUG is generously > hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any > way.--------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > > -- Dan +256-071-2-552035 "You won't have eyes tonight. You won't have ears or a tongue. you will wander the underworld blind, deaf and dumb and all the dead will know; This is Hector: the fool who thought he killed Achilles."
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