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writing skills by StackyMcRacky (4.00 / 1) #1 Tue Mar 11, 2008 at 03:11:31 PM EST

Not that I'm one to criticize, but I'm beginning to think that colleges/universities need to require a "business communication" class for all students. Receiving "r u available?" in pink script font is not professional by any means, and yet those are the kinds of messages being sent.

meh. kids these days.

buttercup was appalled by riceowlguy (2.00 / 0) #2 Tue Mar 11, 2008 at 03:26:53 PM EST

when a prospective Rice student she had to interview used lolspeak in an e-mail about scheduling the interview. I can't blame her.

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: my general feeling is by StackyMcRacky (4.00 / 1) #3 Tue Mar 11, 2008 at 03:29:55 PM EST

if you can't take the time to proofread/write properly, then how can you expect me to take you seriously?

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Kids? by nightflameblue (4.00 / 1) #4 Tue Mar 11, 2008 at 03:31:29 PM EST

Kids do it some, but it's an unfortunate truth that, here anyway, we're seeing the older generation folks who never properly learned how to type pick up the chat language because it means fewer keystrokes for them. Sure, somebody taught them it was acceptable, but they should be old enough to know better.

Our last few management newsletters were impossible to read, as they were filled with single letter word associations and strange abbreviations that take more time for my brain to process than just reading the whole word would take.

I'm beginning to think my generation (currently thirty to forty years old) is the sandwich generation. Young enough to know how to type, old enough to actually want to use that skill to show we're capable of using real words.

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Funny you should mention that. by ammoniacal (4.00 / 1) #5 Tue Mar 11, 2008 at 03:36:14 PM EST

_{Posted during Business Communication class.}

Irony: ammo says it's time. Tom is blocked.
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indeed. by gzt (2.00 / 0) #6 Tue Mar 11, 2008 at 05:06:32 PM EST

It's one thing if they're sending the message from a blackberry or something, at which point it's like sending a telegram or whatever (and, well, it's still barely acceptable, but sometimes it's what you have to do), but the fact that it's in a pink font implies that it wasn't.

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