Dear Tipsters,
Following up on Jim's comment below, I, for one, do have a fascination with
verbal communication, and I plead guilty to having a bias towards existing
words, terms, phrases if they convey meaning well.
Example:
I cringe at the ubiquitous going forward when it is either
I also dislike the emerging dominance of the phrase 'going forward.'
Worse, I dislike that I find that I am using it increasingly in my verbal
communication and, going forward I fear I will continue in this degrading
trend.
sigh
Paul
On Feb 8, 2013, at 6:28 AM, Stuart McKelvie wrote:
Dear
I cringe at the improper use of the words comprised of instead of
comprising and myself instead of me. I also hate popularized words such
as verbiage and signage. On the other hand, I get perverse enjoyment out of
how my phone's autocorrect wants to turn my last name into Devil. I'm also
On Thu, 7 Feb 2013 20:59:07 -0500 (EST), David Epstein wrote:
On Thu, 7 Feb 2013, Deborah S. Briihl went:
I know what others have stated, but at this point I would wonder
about this given the second email, which sounds incredibly rude.
I can't really know whether the second email was over
Hi
Perhaps the situation is different in the USA than Canada, but up here we could
still track a fair bit (although less than in the past) of the basic support
for universities to government, both provincial and federal. So the time and
other resources (e.g., space) invested in unfunded
This is a bit off-topic given the original scenario, but I recall that in the
'70s and '80s one of my professors refused to honor reprint requests from
individuals based in iron curtain countries. Given that political rivalries
continue to exist between nations, I suspect that a similar
Fellow tipsters,
As most of you know, in addition to hosting The Psych Files podcast I sell
psychology-related apps on the iTunes and Google app store. While overall the
apps are well reviewed, recently I've received some negative reviews and I was
wondering if any of you would be willing to
Michael,
I'm sorry that some are unappreciative. The harsh comments that can be
posted without any personal interaction is, in my opinion, the biggest
downside to online courses as well. Since you never actually see the
person, it frees them to say things they'd probably never say to your face.
The online world seems to encourage thoughtless reactions and knee-jerk
responses. Whether on iTunes, blogs, social media, etc. people love having a
say, but seldom take the time to control their emotionalism. It encourages the
anal expulsive, just as in the early days of email and
Thanks Gary and Beth. I appreciate your help. Yes, there's a fair bit of
social psychology in the app review world (though I was thinking more of the
phenomenon of deindividuation than anal explusive, but I can go with that too
;). Another factor is just youth: many young people who buy and
Michael
Not to mention the lack of impulse control. But I tend to agree that a lot of
it is lack of manners and a sort of netarcissm (Is that a word yet? It should
be!)- whether that's related to the anonymity of the internet or something a
bit more sinister. :) At any rate, have you looked at
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