People is illiterite duspite teknologie

Isn't this the truth: What corporate America can't build: A sentence

It's staggering to me that we have this technology that has become a vital part of life in less than ten short years, yet people communicate more poorly than ever. I've seen it everywhere. I get e-mail from recruiters all of the time that look like they were pecked out by a 14-year-old crack addict with hands too unsteady to type the right letters. In my big corporate jobs, I didn't see it from other code monkeys that often, but from outside departments (help desks, HR, etc.).

If you've been to any online forum that covers something you're interested in, you've seen the worst of it. If you like video games, you're really screwed, because I can't remember the last time I saw a coherent video game forum.

I have a strict grammar and spelling policy for my sites. It really pisses off some people, but they leave, and that's fine. I just refuse to allow my little corner of the Internet to be over run with what we like to call "brain-dead AOLer speak."

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  • I couldn't agree more. It bothers me to no end when I receive email that has no punctuation and is all lowercase. Forum posts are, like you said, the worst. I can't understand half of it.

  • Lost for Words: The Use and Abuse of the English Language



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  • I hear you Jeff. One of my pet peeves is when the script kiddies type sentences as if they were a rap artist on TRL. We need a good RegEx for this :)

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