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From: Curt on 15 Apr 2010 07:07 On 2010-04-14, Greg Russell <me(a)invalid.com> wrote: > > The "dumbing down" of society to a 5th-grade level seemed to be rather > ubiquitous in the last decade of the last century, but "it's MY > computer ... MY McDonald's ... MY variable, MYSQL, etc. etc." seems to be > more of an angry 2-year-old level. I believe Charlie Chaplin entitled his autobiography _My Autobiography_, which is a lousy tautological title if I've ever heard one. It is true that titles, like humor, can be hard.
From: blmblm on 15 Apr 2010 07:19 In article <87hbnet4pa.fsf(a)informatik.uni-freiburg.de>, LEE Sau Dan <danlee(a)informatik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote: > >>>>> "unruh" == unruh <unruh(a)wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> writes: > > unruh> Some people like whitespace. "My Recipie File" > > You mean people like to misspell words in filenames? ;) [ snip ] > BTW, I hate this stupid "my ..." naming scheme. It make the UI look > like it is for an idiot. Do you label your luggage case "my lugguage" > when traveling? "lugguage"? Nice illustration of what in alt.usage.english is known as Skitt's Law: that any post complaining about someone else's mistake(s) in grammar or usage or spelling will itself contain such a mistake. :-) I'm with you about the "my" names, though -- sounds like kindergarten. Is there a better idea, though .... Well, yeah, in at least one instance, maybe -- OS X's answer to "My Computer" seems to be "About This Mac". Much better! -- B. L. Massingill ObDisclaimer: I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor.
From: Aragorn on 15 Apr 2010 07:24
On Wednesday 14 April 2010 19:11 in comp.os.linux.misc, somebody identifying as Greg Russell wrote... > The "dumbing down" of society to a 5th-grade level seemed to be rather > ubiquitous in the last decade of the last century,[...] And apart from ubiquitous, it's also intentional, alas... -- *Aragorn* (registered GNU/Linux user #223157) |