Communication-Just some thoughts

[Andrew Schreiber]

http://www.reuters.com/article/techn...0081210?rpc=64

This is just something I found on Digg.com I felt that I should share it on here as it is something I complain at people about all the time.

Communication is a very important skill, being able to do it well is actually quite a marketable skill. Where I work most of our communication is done via email. Too many times have I seen emails come in that I have had to spend nearly 20 minutes deciphering. That does not make for a very happy morning. We also bill by the hour for most things, if I take 20 minutes to read your email that is 1/3 of an hour you just paid for. If the person could have effectively told me that they needed a column added to a report I could have completed that in 20 minutes instead of the hour it took me to decipher.

So, back to the article. According to it we can all read the 'textese' but that doesn't mean that we want to. Some of the people on these boards are old dinosaurs who have trouble reading it. Some of us on these boards also just love the English language, I think that it is an absolutely beautiful language if well written.

In short, write in English, clear, concise, English.

K thx bai

PS: If you catch errors in this laugh at the irony, I try my best and that is all I ask of anyone else.