Hi,
Apparently in Ottawa it's the opposite. I have to keep up with what my
boss writes. James it's just the beginning.
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 8, 2009, at 2:48 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Well the argument is that in the area of communication (written or
spoken), times are changing. More emphasis is now placed on how best
to
express one's self using gadgets (with all the current limitations and
information overload) as opposed to the usual pen and paper. If a
kid doesn't
learn to read/write/spell by year eight, no technology is going to
fill
that void. The next step would probably be a crash course in
'electronic
etiquette'. I do agree that within the 'standard norm' the tweet
itself might seem inapporpriate but the kid probably doesn't know
any better.
Their life is most likely encompassed by text messaging, tweeting,
IM and
other social networking genre.
The best approach for Prof. Bagye would be to tweet back (assuming
Paul
has a twitter account) stressing that they send the request through
standard email.
If you can't beat them. Join them (with help from a twictionary)
http://twictionary.pbworks.com/
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 10:02:13AM -0700, Christopher Nambale wrote:
Simon, what has cursive writing or penmanship got to do with this
debate?
My own opinion is that people who are good with words (both spoken
and written) always tend to end up at the top of the corporate
ladder, whether they deserve it or not. And the brilliant engineers
who run the show in the boiler room but cannot write or speak well
to save their lives, always end up staying in the boiler room
unless they are tremendously gifted.
CN
--- On Thu, 10/8/09, Kiggundu <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Kiggundu <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [LUG] [OT] Should techies have to demonstrate good
communication skills?
To: "Linux Users Group Uganda" <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009, 12:43 PM
Cursive writing is fading skill, but so what?
Simon,
You are not going to send the boss an "ebonics" or tweet monthly
report
and think you will ever climb the corporate ladder above "trainee"
You work at Sheraton, Ministry of Health, Stanbic, MTN or Warid or
Shell or even my small company and you send words below ....
Lst mnth the seva crushed 2wice nd MS outlk did nt wrk 4 7usrs
but ISP lnk was OK
...... as your monthly report to the head of IT and you think you
are headed to replace the Head of IT in this lifetime or the
next???!!
I would say if you believe that then you should stop sniffing the
white powder and get into rehab.
You will be labeled ignorant or barely literate, or worse.
If you think that the heroes of the next generation should the
Steve Jobs, bill gates, the Google Guys, Linus or even old guys
like Buffet
and create wealth and industry and that is how they write a request
for funding to a venture capital firm
or even how they write a company profile or business proposal to
present to a bank!!!
The guy who creates twitter or google does not care that millions
or billions of illiterate people who cannot spell use it and he/she
makes money
But do not think that he/she is as illiterate as the users.
Kiggs
On Oct 8, 2009, at 6:35 PM, [email protected] wrote:
I want to assume that message was sent from a mobile device. That
should be
expected from a QWERTY keyboard 1/3 the size of a credit card
along with
twitter's 140 character limit... no spell check?
Brace yourself for more of those 'ebonics' tweets. Twitter Inc. is
a $1 billion industry and it's here stay.
Cursive writing is fading skill, but so what?
Fewer schools emphasize ‘penmanship’ as computer use increases
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32925695/ns/us_news-education/
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 11:08:10AM +0100, Daniel Bwente wrote:
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.
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