Bozo
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http://news.com.com/Microsoft+seeks...+Pinata/2100-1043_3-6050085.html?tag=nefd.top
Brain wash young kids into buying your product.
Bozo :mrgrn:
Brain wash young kids into buying your product.
Bozo :mrgrn:
Reminds me of Hitlers youth groups
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Tannin
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Are they all illiterate, or just the ones that work for the gaming division?
Note also the illiterate copy editing on the part of some apprentice moron at Cnet. When you are speaking of a particular person with a particular title, that title is and must be capitalised. When speaking in the abstract, that same title is not capitalised. For example:
* Shane Kim is the General Manager of Microsoft Game Studios
but
* Microsoft Game Studios is run by a general manager
similarly:
* Microsoft have several studios, including some game studios. The best known of these is Microsoft Game Studios.
Or:
* Major Smith is in the US Army. Smith is a major in the army.
Capital letters for a formal title ("Major"), lower case for a job description ("major"); upper case for a particular organisation ("US Army", "Microsoft Game Studios"), lower case for a type of organisation ("an army", "a game studio").
When the expression is as error-ridden as that, one's confidence in the content of the article rapidly evaporates. Hey you illiterate Cnet would-be, could-be journalists, it's not that difficult you know. Correct capitalisation of formal titles (such as "General Manager") is a very simple and easy-to-remember rule of basic English .... Can't you get anything right?
PS: dare I read beyond the first paragraph? Or does it get worse?
the General Manager of Microsoft Game Studios said:
Note also the illiterate copy editing on the part of some apprentice moron at Cnet. When you are speaking of a particular person with a particular title, that title is and must be capitalised. When speaking in the abstract, that same title is not capitalised. For example:
* Shane Kim is the General Manager of Microsoft Game Studios
but
* Microsoft Game Studios is run by a general manager
similarly:
* Microsoft have several studios, including some game studios. The best known of these is Microsoft Game Studios.
Or:
* Major Smith is in the US Army. Smith is a major in the army.
Capital letters for a formal title ("Major"), lower case for a job description ("major"); upper case for a particular organisation ("US Army", "Microsoft Game Studios"), lower case for a type of organisation ("an army", "a game studio").
When the expression is as error-ridden as that, one's confidence in the content of the article rapidly evaporates. Hey you illiterate Cnet would-be, could-be journalists, it's not that difficult you know. Correct capitalisation of formal titles (such as "General Manager") is a very simple and easy-to-remember rule of basic English .... Can't you get anything right?
PS: dare I read beyond the first paragraph? Or does it get worse?
Buck
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Where is the Grammar Police when you need them?
mubs
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I stopped reading there too.Tannin said:
Poor writing is rampant these days. When I was a kid growing up, we were told in school to read the newspaper everyday to improve our language skills; there was no question at all about the quality of writing in a newspaper. These days there are stories that I can't make head or tail, of, so jumbled is the presentation of "facts". Unfortunately this problem extends even to prestigious rags like the L.A. Times, where, in the same issue, you can read an excellent piece that shares the page with a crummy one. Leaves poor ole me scratchin me head as to 'ow that can happen.