Ann Sanfedele wrote: > [...] > Recently I received an email from someone on ebay who hope I could find a > particular item for her. > She wrote the entire email in CAPS. She was - um - about my age and on AOL. > So I try to help > by saying it is considered shouting to type in CAPS. She then quoted her > son-in-law to me who > considered that anyone who would be concerned about such stuff was living "in > the 70's" (never mind > that I didn't learn about it until getting on the internet in 1994.) Her > son-in-law wrote to her and she > shared this with me - not at all in a petulant manner, but because she thought > she had gathered > interesting information. Anyway.... > > Son-in-law wrote to her: > >.... IRC got started, where people could type to each other > > live, just like a conversation, so the geeks started describing typing in > > caps as shouting, and a lot of bull about being rude. it used to matter > > (before there were translators), now it doesn't, and no one gets to make the > > rules. frankly anyone that has this concern is living in the seventies. > > there is no correct format for anything anymore---that's what universal > > communication is all about... > > Scary, eh? > annsan
Totally, dude! <g> In all seriousness, this son-in-law is an idiot and I'm glad he's not part of MY family, or there would be word fights every time we got together. He's an ass. A living example of no critical thinking at all! keith
