Technology
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3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff
4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.
5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)
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7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed
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Email spam usually has heavily flawed English.
I've heard that this is intentional. It would be a waste of the spammer's time to be contacted by people who are smart enough to not be fooled. Those smart people won't bother contacting the spammer and wasting the spammer's time if they see grammatical errors in a message that purports to be from a reputable organization, so the spammer throws in some errors to make the smart people filter themselves out. Or so the theory goes.
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I've seen this filtering hypothesis, and it seems plausible. OTOH, it also gives James Veitch some fantastic material for his comedy routine.
*nitpicker (but I prefer pedant in polite circles, and grammar nazi on the Internet, or at least I did until actual nazis started showing up again)
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Certain uni composition students had better learn to write flawless English if they expect to earn their desired grade in my courses.
Maybe customer support should take a stronger stance on understanding and being understood using standard dialect. At least the CSRs that I usually seem to talk with could use a good basic communication course.
Students will use what they learn from me more than you think if they want a degree. If they don't want one... well, we have several excellent nearby trade schools where they can learn a skill that won't require formal standard English and will make them a whole lot more money in the long run (I'm honestly saying this respectfully).