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Drill King:
Off topic but:

Cathy stop* being so frighteningly intelligent and making me feel very stupid compared to you and you're barely older than me!

*please cure aids

phooey:
Oh come on, y'all know we are here just because non of us could stomach

--- Quote ---face-to-face, real-life conversation, which were "far more perilous ... occur in real time, with no opportunity to think up clever or witty responses" and "require a sensitivity to voice tone, body language and perhaps even to pheromones, those sneaky molecules that we release and which others smell subconsciously".
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By the way, are any other battlescarred proofreaders catching a few awkward grammar-bits?  Just after a cursory look here I red-penned the parts that I found problematic. 

This is too bad.  I remember The Guardian being pretty okay. 

Darkbluerabbit:
Is anyone well versed in communications history?  I did some searching and so far I can't find anything on whether people responded like this to the spread of telephone technology.  When home phones first became widespread and affordable, I can imagine detractors complaining that they would discourage house calls and other face-to-face communication.

Nebraskaguy:
I agree.  Also it may be better then myspace but it is getting worse and degenerating into the cesspool that myspace became.

supersheep:

--- Quote from: phooey on 24 Feb 2009, 19:16 ---Oh come on, y'all know we are here just because non of us could stomach

--- Quote ---face-to-face, real-life conversation, which were "far more perilous ... occur in real time, with no opportunity to think up clever or witty responses" and "require a sensitivity to voice tone, body language and perhaps even to pheromones, those sneaky molecules that we release and which others smell subconsciously".
--- End quote ---

By the way, are any other battlescarred proofreaders catching a few awkward grammar-bits?  Just after a cursory look here I red-penned the parts that I found problematic. 

This is too bad.  I remember The Guardian being pretty okay. 

--- End quote ---
There is a reason why they call it the Grauniad...

Ruyi has said pretty much everything I might want to say, and made it sound mad smart too. Kudos. One thing I will add - instead of blaming 'screen technologies' for rise in prescription of ADD and ADHD drugs, maybe one might want to take a wee look at the pharmaceutical industry. I'm not an expert or anything, but I feel that for a large chunk of ADD/ADHD diagnoses, it's simply kids being kids and people deciding to medicate that away.

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