Re: (idm) back in my day...

From nevileb
Sent Fri, Jul 3rd 1998, 00:59


> I have noticed this as a fundamentlal problem with email as of late.
> That email breeds ill communication.  An imperfect medium for the
> english language.  When words mean different things based on context
and
> tone, text will not do.

That's untrue.  Words can be as rich as anything
else - it's simply that very few people have
the necessary reading and writing skills, or
are lazy.  Oh, the third possibility: that
they're stupid.

Sometimes I wonder what the distribution amongst
those three would be.

bbn