A Dying Breed
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@jon-nyc said in A Dying Breed:
@Mik said in A Dying Breed:
My daughter, an English and Theater Education major in her undergrad, defended her masters' thesis yesterday. They said it was the best written one they had ever seen in that program.
Awesome!
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@Mik , if you don't mind sharing, what's her thesis about?
@Axtremus said in A Dying Breed:
@jon-nyc said in A Dying Breed:
@Mik said in A Dying Breed:
My daughter, an English and Theater Education major in her undergrad, defended her masters' thesis yesterday. They said it was the best written one they had ever seen in that program.
Awesome!
+1
@Mik , if you don't mind sharing, what's her thesis about?
Sustainability in the arts and entertainment industries.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in A Dying Breed:
Did they talk about the complete and total devaluation of English majors in the job market, which is wholly independent of the woke problem?
Which I do not understand. My ability to communicate in writing has been key to my career success. My daughter, an English and Theater Education major in her undergrad, defended her masters' thesis yesterday. They said it was the best written one they had ever seen in that program.
Maybe they want us all doing l33t speak because it's less expressive.
@Mik said in A Dying Breed:
@Aqua-Letifer said in A Dying Breed:
Did they talk about the complete and total devaluation of English majors in the job market, which is wholly independent of the woke problem?
Which I do not understand. My ability to communicate in writing has been key to my career success. My daughter, an English and Theater Education major in her undergrad, defended her masters' thesis yesterday. They said it was the best written one they had ever seen in that program.
Congratulations to her and you, that's wonderful!
As a technical report reviewer, I am still consistently surprised by just how dreadful the written English of middle aged, middle class white guys can be.
I was only joking
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@Mik said in A Dying Breed:
@Aqua-Letifer said in A Dying Breed:
Did they talk about the complete and total devaluation of English majors in the job market, which is wholly independent of the woke problem?
Which I do not understand. My ability to communicate in writing has been key to my career success. My daughter, an English and Theater Education major in her undergrad, defended her masters' thesis yesterday. They said it was the best written one they had ever seen in that program.
Congratulations to her and you, that's wonderful!
As a technical report reviewer, I am still consistently surprised by just how dreadful the written English of middle aged, middle class white guys can be.
@Doctor-Phibes I am too. It's rather astounding.
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@Doctor-Phibes I am too. It's rather astounding.
@Mik said in A Dying Breed:
@Doctor-Phibes I am too. It's rather astounding.
Some of the stuff I see is written in what can only be described as 'frontier gibberish'.
Link to videoI was only joking
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@Mik said in A Dying Breed:
@Aqua-Letifer said in A Dying Breed:
Did they talk about the complete and total devaluation of English majors in the job market, which is wholly independent of the woke problem?
Which I do not understand. My ability to communicate in writing has been key to my career success. My daughter, an English and Theater Education major in her undergrad, defended her masters' thesis yesterday. They said it was the best written one they had ever seen in that program.
Congratulations to her and you, that's wonderful!
As a technical report reviewer, I am still consistently surprised by just how dreadful the written English of middle aged, middle class white guys can be.
@Doctor-Phibes said in A Dying Breed:
@Mik said in A Dying Breed:
@Aqua-Letifer said in A Dying Breed:
Did they talk about the complete and total devaluation of English majors in the job market, which is wholly independent of the woke problem?
Which I do not understand. My ability to communicate in writing has been key to my career success. My daughter, an English and Theater Education major in her undergrad, defended her masters' thesis yesterday. They said it was the best written one they had ever seen in that program.
Congratulations to her and you, that's wonderful!
As a technical report reviewer, I am still consistently surprised by just how dreadful the written English of middle aged, middle class white guys can be.
I was asked just last week to make something "more general by being a little more specific."
And most of these requests do not come from guys.
I don't think it's a gender-specific issue.
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@Mik said in A Dying Breed:
@Doctor-Phibes I am too. It's rather astounding.
Some of the stuff I see is written in what can only be described as 'frontier gibberish'.
Link to videoAs my one of my English profs explained it:
“The biggest problem with undergrads is that many of them write their essays like they speak - directionless and irrational”.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in A Dying Breed:
Effective written communication has gone wooey and shamanistic.
What do you mean by "wooey" and "shamanistic"?
@Axtremus said in A Dying Breed:
@Aqua-Letifer said in A Dying Breed:
Effective written communication has gone wooey and shamanistic.
What do you mean by "wooey" and "shamanistic"?
He wears a horned Viking armored cap and shouts Wooey! a lot, as he vanquishes his foes. And foettes.
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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@Aqua-Letifer said in A Dying Breed:
Effective written communication has gone wooey and shamanistic.
What do you mean by "wooey" and "shamanistic"?
@Axtremus said in A Dying Breed:
@Aqua-Letifer said in A Dying Breed:
Effective written communication has gone wooey and shamanistic.
What do you mean by "wooey" and "shamanistic"?
I mean I can't even explain process to anyone anymore. Not even in the most basic sense. From management to other departments, others' descriptions of what I do is incredibly hand-wavey, vague, and off the mark.
On the one hand it's kind of good, because it creates a lot of flexibility. On the other, it allows for charlatans. (Which I don't understand in a working world in which everything can be measured. I guess a lot of people don't bother.)
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@Axtremus said in A Dying Breed:
@Aqua-Letifer said in A Dying Breed:
Effective written communication has gone wooey and shamanistic.
What do you mean by "wooey" and "shamanistic"?
He wears a horned Viking armored cap and shouts Wooey! a lot, as he vanquishes his foes. And foettes.
@Jolly said in A Dying Breed:
@Axtremus said in A Dying Breed:
@Aqua-Letifer said in A Dying Breed:
Effective written communication has gone wooey and shamanistic.
What do you mean by "wooey" and "shamanistic"?
He wears a horned Viking armored cap and shouts Wooey! a lot, as he vanquishes his foes. And foettes.
If I did, decent chance they'd put up with it.
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@Mik Congratulations to your daughter!!!
