Walmart PC's are gone

[Carlos Macedo Gomes]

It's funny how memes crosspollinate:
The Death of Email:
http://slate.com/id/2177969/pagenum/all/#page_start

SMTP is dead!! Long Live SMTP!!!
Linux is dead!!! Long Live Linux!!!!
Windows is dead!!!  EOM :-)

As the world becomes more distributed and virtual good communication
skills (writing and speaking) will not decrease in importance.  Maybe
I'm old school but I suspect the jargon of today will be the Valley
Speak of tomorrow.  One can hope :-)

ymmv,
C.G.

On 11/15/07, Dan Lund <situationalawareness at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Formal writing hasn't fallen out of favor, it's just not used via
> email and texting.
> Lazy people, nor people figuring out the 3133t speak exists, hardly
> consist of language evolution.
> Let's not put serious credibility behind something that's done for fun
> and humor.
> As far as college students using SMS-speak on class papers.. well...
> if they make it through the class then that's proof the system needs
> to be revamped.



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Carlos Macedo Gomes
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