Replies to post #79644 on Biotech Values

[corpstrat]

<<you know what I mean anyway>>

To which the best reply is, "if I know what you mean anyway, I don't need to waste time reading your words in the first place."

But let's not condemn the younger generation out of hand. My kids have worked harder than I did for admission to highly competitive schools and to graduate magna cum laude. They may be slightly less punctilious about grammar, but they know a lot more cell biology and math along with their humanities majors.

The problem may be that few employers discriminate between different qualities of educational attainment. Not whining: an excellent education is a good in itself.

[DewDiligence]

[OT] Re: Lack of copy editing

They're being replaced by another generation who feel that these minor intellectual niceties are merely boring and unnecessary and that a properly written argument has no more weight than an error-filled one: "What's the big deal, you know what I mean anyway."

In the example I just posted (#msg-39018998), a reader would have to do some fact checking to even know what the Dow Jones author intended to say. (The author intended to say 136 thousand barrels of oil per day rather than 136 million, but this wouldn’t have been clear unless the reader was already familiar with Addax Petroleum.)