I thought the grammar, spelling and punctuation police
had finally given up on this list. I mean we had the
whole "less v. fewer" debate and a little tiff about
net acronyms, I guess it is that time again.
You may want to note that the contributors here are
generally busy law professors and busy professionals
(lawyers, writers, and librarians seem to make up the
bulk, but I am sure there are others).
Some, like Prof. Ochoa, routinely craft complete
informative answers devoid of any errors of the sort
you mention. Others, such as myself, attmept to
contribute on some level, but have little concern for
the errors riddled in our posts because we have more
pressing issues to contend with. And others, such as
Prof. Landau, contribute with interesting and
insightful posts in which the errors are a texture
which increases the character of the post, if you even
notice them (I hadn't). Now there are some who follow
the ee cummings approach, but don't get me started
down that line . . . :)
Enjoy the information and you will find the texture to
be comforting. Insult the informative folks on the
list and you will find that the information will
dissipate.
Bst rgrds,
Keith
- It's Possible <4us2b1[_at_]cox.net> wrote:
> Dear Michael:
> I could not agree with you more as with regard to
> your email showing us the
> great need for grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc.
> What was the name of that "correspondence school"
> where you studied?
> Guess it's possible anyone can miss-out on the
> Spell-Check session.
> Now this must be embarrassing as all can be. ouch !
> However, through reading your comments, I guess this
> is a form of Distance
> Learning for all of us.
>
> CattSCAN Image Publishing
> Bob Catt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-cni-copyright[_at_]cni.org
> [mailto:owner-cni-copyright[_at_]cni.org]On
> Behalf Of Michael Landau
> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 10:46 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Re: Distance Learning and Copyright
>
>
>
> In the age of euphemisms in which the garbageman is
> a "sanitation engineer"
> and a sales clerk is a "customer service inventory
> expert" could distance
> learning be the new name for "correspondence
> school?"
>
> Nothing beats face to face contact, especially at a
> time when people spend
> very little time actually interacting with people in
> person and nearly all
> of their time in front of computer screens, on cell
> phones, and in their
> cars.
>
> The technology to allow students to take courses
> away from school has been
> around for a long time. Why is it that, in the
> past, very few institutions
> gave their students a pile of videotapes to be
> watched at home in place of a
> course, with instructions to call or write to the
> professor with querstions?
> Why, because part of the learning experience is
> direct communication IN
> PERSON.
>
> The distance learning movement arose at a time when
> the Internet was viewed
> as something that would forever change every aspect
> of every person's life.
>
> With the collapse of almost everything except for
> Amazon, eBay, and some
> informational sites, itr should now be realized
> that the Internet is not
> the best thing since sliced bread. It is great for
> some shopping. It is
> great for quickly ontaining information, but it is
> not a substitute for
> most activities, including university education.
>
> HAPPY NEW YEAR !
>
>
> Michael Landau
> Profesor of Law
> Georgia State University
> Atlanta, GA 30303
>
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Received on Mon Jan 06 2003 - 13:53:01 GMT