this–this! makes me want to punch geeks in the face

[erastes]

Question: What is Twitter API?
Twitter has added a new feature called API or the Application Programming Interface. API is a way for a program in Twitter to do task relating to data modification. It makes every feature in your site on Twitter is supported by a high technology of the API mechanism.

What?  WHAT?

Comments

[tim crowhurst (from livejournal.com)]

The scary thing is that syntax in computer programming has to be incredibly precise. One wrong letter and the program doesn't work. Things like this make you wonder how we have any working computer programs.

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

The way a computer thinks isn't the way humans think. I think that when people talk to computers too long, some of them forget how to talk to other non-geek people. Not all, my bro-in-law can converse in perfectly normal English, but he's got my sister to talk English to him at home...

[tim crowhurst (from livejournal.com)]

That only explains away some of their apparently ballistic approach to grammar.

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

Schools stopped teaching how to diagram sentences a couple of decades ago. I used to work in a college and some of the stuff I typed up -- for graduate students! -- had grammar my 10th-grade English teacher would have read aloud and corrected for the entire class. It isn't just the geeks.

[tim crowhurst (from livejournal.com)]

What the f**k were graduate students doing getting other people to type up their work for them? The only instance where I'd think that acceptable would be if the student in question was dyslexic or deaf, in which case poor English is not merely excusable, but actually expected, but somehow I have the impression that tis was not the case.

When I was studying, a portion of the mark for any essay was reserved for grammar and punctuation.

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

I had a sideline typing dissertations. No abuse of department offices. This was back in the Dark Ages when dissertations had to be produced on a mechanical device. At least it was a correcting Selectric...

And a lot of teachers don't bother correcting English anymore. Mainly, I fear, because they don't know it.

[tim crowhurst (from livejournal.com)]

I think that last comment would be hilarious if it were not true. As it is, it is worrying.