On Wednesday 18 August 2004 18:28, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote: >On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 04:48:27PM -0400, Carroll Grigsby wrote: >> On Wednesday 18 August 2004 02:11 pm, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote: >> > On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 06:43:35PM -0700, Mr. Oberoi wrote: >> > > to be honest... yes! >> > >> > As in... >> > Damien Clark >> > >> > http://infocom.cqu.edu.au/Courses/2004/T3/COIT13146/Assessment/A >> >ssignment_1 _-_Shell_Programming/ >> >> In light of the fact that Mr. Oberoi has admitted the error of his >> ways, did you give him a passing grade? > >Well there are multiple parts to the class and I have >yet to do the exercise myself. > >I once worked at a major workstation company and saw the same thing >where students would call in for assistance on an interesting and > 'non trivial' problem. Interesting enough to discuss over lunch... > and almost all of us at the table went --" me too, I just got the > same question"--. > >Since none of us "just replied" it will be curious to see how well >he did. Goodness, help him if his grammar needs work. No *if* about it Tom, his grammer needs all the help it can get. Which leads me to an observation based on 69 years of living, and now about 20 years of interneting. That observation is that for the most part, unless there is a real 'language problem' on the part of the poster, the level of written english here far exceeds that presently being published by our leading nationwide daily newspapers. Many of the posters here had to learn english in order to carry on a meaningfull conversation covering the technical issues of today. And guess what? Most of those whose native tongue might be german or some other slavic language, and have learned english in professional self defense, have apparently studied it much more thoroughly than many of us who speak in natively. At my age, I am still getting an english lesson on the internet from time to time. Probably from someone with a .de, .ru or .cx address. We Americans are getting incredibly sloppy with our usage, some would even go so far as to say bastardization, of the language. IMO we are NOT improving the language by doing so. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.24% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
