Your Letters
15:56 UK time, Wednesday, 19 August 2009
Well I take it all back. I only got 3/7 in the , and I have a PhD in chemistry, so clearly media studies is a harder subject than chemistry after all.
Adam, London, UK
Was I the only one disappointed when I tried to cheat on the font question in the media studies quiz? The source code for the page listed the font as charset=iso-8859-1, which didn't really help.
Ray Lashley (with a PhD in the sciences, but only a B in GCSE media studies), Colchester, UK
Surely, surely, it's not right that there were no comments about the alternative Thriller lyrics in Web Monitor being bad?
James, Croydon
Re - what about the legendary Ryanair flights to "London Prestwick", an airport a mere 400 miles away from the linked city ().
Sander, London
Is Web Monitor looking for the word "backronym"?
Bas, London
They're retronyms!
Magical Trevor
"Men are advised to drink no more than four units a day - the equivalent of two pints of regular-strength beer, and women no more than three units - the equivalent of a large, 250ml glass of wine." ()
Er - gender stereotype much?
Gwenhwyfaer, Sheffield, UK
Jantien (Tuesday's letters), Saramago doesn't use much punctuation, but he does use commas, full stops and capital letters. In English translation his books also include the requisite apostrophes (don't know if these are in the original Portuguese) so they are much easier to read (from a grammatical perspective) than yesterday's Paper Monitor. Saramago's Blindness is one of the best books ever written. Give it another try.
Beth, London
Regarding Paper Monitor's lack of punctuation, I was reminded of the following classic display of how important punctuation is.
Version 1:
Dear Jon,
I want a man who knows what love is all about. You are generous, kind, thoughtful. People who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me for other men. I yearn for you. I have no feelings whatsoever when we're apart. I can be forever happy - will you let me be yours?
Gloria
Version 2:
Dear Jon,
I want a man who knows what love is. All about you are generous, kind, thoughtful people, who are not like you. Admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me. For other men, I yearn. For you, I have no feelings whatsoever. When we're apart, I can be forever happy. Will you let me be?
Yours,
Gloria
Ben Merritt, Sheffield, England
Did anyone else think that was going to involve a very impressive ornithological display?
Nicolas, Bristol
Dear Chris (Thursdays letters), the name of your lake is even worse, given the first half is old Flemish for nookie.
Fred, Rotherham
I have a question about the Monitor. Been as the Monitor is a faceless, possibly genderless collective hive life-form, does that make it the first transhuman news source? And is the Monitor pro or anti the Transhumanist movement?
Rob, Reading
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