As Always, Julia

wino · **Posted:** Fri Feb 04, 2011 10:00 am

Paul & JeanF - this reading deficit re: emails deserves some sort of thread. Sometimes, we send very important and long financial directions to clients. It's as if everything after the first paragraph is in hieroglyphics. We even tried numbering the paragraphs. Nope! :twisted:

javafiend · **Posted:** Fri Feb 04, 2011 10:47 am

gardnercook wrote:

Paul Kierstead wrote:

auntcy1 wrote:

The gift of writing seems to have been lost.

To be honest, I think the gift of attention span has been lost. When I do carefully craft an email or post that is longer it is extremely evident from the replies that very few people actually read it. This is true in professional and personal spaces. Most people seem to have adopted tl;dr as a lifestyle. After a while you just say F-it, why bother if no one is going to read. Of course, in Julia's day, you weren't in a deluge in message/mails, so I do see the problem.

On the book, I think I might have a go at it.

Paul, I remember when USA Today first came out, I heard a speaker (who was from the NY Times) refer to it as McNews and said that it would alter how the next generation got their news....short paragraphs and nothing else. I'm thinking he was right.
ilene

I still call it McNews

Darcie · **Joined:** Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:18 pm **Posts:** 1244

fitzie wrote:

I really loved this book. Have a question. Canned sausage was used in one of the stuffings/dressings. Any idea what this could be? Surely not Viennas.

My family used to can sausage all the time. It was basically any kind of sausage they made during hog butchering (sometimes in casing, sometimes loose), packed into a jar (surrounded with fat if in a casing), and then canned with a pressure canner. I think they did it because it kept better than freezing and/or because it could be stored in the "root cellar" where no electricity was required. Maybe that's what this is referring to.

FWIW I always thought it was gross.

crystal · **Joined:** Fri Jan 07, 2011 2:47 pm **Posts:** 390

wino wrote:

Paul & JeanF - this reading deficit re: emails deserves some sort of thread. Sometimes, we send very important and long financial directions to clients. It's as if everything after the first paragraph is in hieroglyphics. We even tried numbering the paragraphs. Nope! :twisted:

I have one friend who is extremely busy; I've noted that be it email or text, if you don't put it in the first sentence, he misses it. Lengthy missives, and he doesn't see the impt points.

On a side note, H has learned to condense well. All A's on report card so he extorts pizza(I called it in and texted Rod to pick up). H is upstairs playing xbox and texts this:

H: I command you to order my pizza, wench.
M:
H: I'm not joking.
M:
H: Did you order it?
M: Mebbe
H: Wings?
M: No(I'm lying to him)
H: K

I was rolling, he is hilarious.

crystal · **Joined:** Fri Jan 07, 2011 2:47 pm **Posts:** 390

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!

Can't put it down; got so jazzed up, I actually put the kindle app on the ipad, just in case I get trapped somewhere.

fitzie · **Posted:** Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:55 pm

Kindle? IPad? I'm so far behind.
Fitzie

JesBelle · **Joined:** Fri Jan 16, 2009 7:50 pm **Posts:** 2062

Don't worry, for those without Kindles and IPads, they also publish material in the format known as a Bound Object Of Knowledge, aka a BOOK.

crystal · **Joined:** Fri Jan 07, 2011 2:47 pm **Posts:** 390

Yeah,
Last time I packed a carry-on I thought I was missing something. :mrgreen:

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