Words about words

[robinson46176]

4got 2 mentn ow bad few yrs of usn Twit can mes up ritin skls tryn to put ful thot in2 140 chars...

Right now it is up to 280 but that may be temporary.


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[JPG]

So users of tweet are twits?

[db5]

As a child I was instructed to listen to the nightly news (Edward R. Murrow, Huntley & Brinkley, John Cameron Swayze, and others. My teacher told us that by doing so we would learn how to pronounce words, how to speak without sounding like a hick, proper grammar and other things. This was reinforced by every teacher through the 8th grade. A great lesson that was reinforced daily.

Now those people are the last ones you want to listen to as role models, e.g, 12-7-17 on the 5 O’clock news the female news anchor (a stand in trying to earn her bones) reported on the sudden increase in STDs this time of year due to job stress and anxiety. She coulsn't understand why job stress would lead to an increase in STDs but that's what report said. Obviously she didn’t read the Associated Press report, just the headline so her comments were related to sexually transmitted disease rather than Short Term Disability, which many employees who have this in their benefit package and don’t want to use vacation time just get a Doctor’s note stating that they need 2,4 or 6 weeks off work to recuperate.

[everettdavis]

And some definitely thought STD or METRIC in this forum I am certain.

Everett

[EliWalton]

As a ham radio operator, I regularly use 100-year old established abbreviations to facilitate worldwide conversations using morse code. Nothing new here except the media, users and the home-grown codes. (We can just hope there is no auto-correct built into the PP user interface!)

73 ES GOD BLESS U ES URS dit dit

[JPG]

As a ham radio operator, I regularly use 100-year old established abbreviations to facilitate worldwide conversations using morse code. Nothing new here except the media, users and the home-grown codes. (We can just hope there is no auto-correct built into the PP user interface!)

73 ES GOD BLESS U ES URS dit dit

Wonder how many understood the '73' and why it exists.

[jsburger]

As a ham radio operator, I regularly use 100-year old established abbreviations to facilitate worldwide conversations using morse code. Nothing new here except the media, users and the home-grown codes. (We can just hope there is no auto-correct built into the PP user interface!)

73 ES GOD BLESS U ES URS dit dit

Wonder how many understood the '73' and why it exists.

It is Morse code for "Best regards" or similar. It is a shortened way of saying that on telegraphy. Why, make it quicker to send the message. Most ham radio operators know that. Most non hams probably don't. How about 88 or CQ.

John KB0ES

[JPG]

As a ham radio operator, I regularly use 100-year old established abbreviations to facilitate worldwide conversations using morse code. Nothing new here except the media, users and the home-grown codes. (We can just hope there is no auto-correct built into the PP user interface!)

73 ES GOD BLESS U ES URS dit dit

Wonder how many understood the '73' and why it exists.

It is Morse code for "Best regards" or similar. It is a shortened way of saying that on telegraphy. Why, make it quicker to send the message. Most ham radio operators know that. Most non hams probably don't. How about 88 or CQ.

John KB0ES

OR "HI"

[newportcycle]

I have to agree, the decline not only spelling but syntax is shocking. I was a "C+" student and things around our office have gotten such that errors are prevalent to even my eyes.

[robinson46176]

For a while I kept a letter I received back when I was in data processing in the late 1960's. We did a lot of general ledger processing for CPA's and the letter was from an employee of one of them. She wrote me to tell me that our people had misspelled a word on their report and they wanted it corrected. I still had their hard copy available and it was her error. What made it classic was that she made 5 really blatant spelling errors in her short letter to me.
I never met her but she must have been related to the boss or very pretty because her lack of skill at her job became legendary in our office over several years.

Reminds me of a young girl from Scotland that worked for me for a short time. She spent much of her time boasting about how much better their schools were than ours... If she was any reflection of their schools they had problems.

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