Zooze the Horse roams around the pasture near Lamar State College. Zooze thinks about problems in academia. Zhe wants proffies to submit posts (blog posts, not fence posts).
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
A submission, from Moriarty from Midland
"I've come to hate my school email. I never want to see it again. My private email is freedom. My work email is slavery, a constant struggle to breathe amid a dense Beijing smog."
I cannot wait for the day I log out of school mail for the last time. I hate it with all that remains of my soul.
In the meantime, I'm hoping Google Translate will come up with a "Batshit to English" functionality, so that I can try to understand whatever it was they set out to say.
Our admin appear to be paid per word, so prolix are they.
It would be similar to what would happen if someone invented a translator for dogs. It would be quickly found that what dogs have to say is:
"Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!"
(OK, I know I'm ripping off The Far Side by Gary Larson.)
A Batshit-to-English translator would quickly reveal that what they are really saying is:
“We have no idea what we’re talking about, but we like to pretend we do because we like to think we're so clever, even though we couldn’t be bothered to check it by even simple observation, much less scientific method.”
This has a long history among academics, going back to Aristotle and Aquinas. Freud and Dewey were good ones.
It's like listening to my own thoughts.
ReplyDeleteI cannot wait for the day I log out of school mail for the last time. I hate it with all that remains of my soul.
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime, I'm hoping Google Translate will come up with a "Batshit to English" functionality, so that I can try to understand whatever it was they set out to say.
Our admin appear to be paid per word, so prolix are they.
It would be similar to what would happen if someone invented a translator for dogs. It would be quickly found that what dogs have to say is:
Delete"Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!"
(OK, I know I'm ripping off The Far Side by Gary Larson.)
A Batshit-to-English translator would quickly reveal that what they are really saying is:
“We have no idea what we’re talking about, but we like to pretend we do because we like to think we're so clever, even though we couldn’t be bothered to check it by even simple observation, much less scientific method.”
This has a long history among academics, going back to Aristotle and Aquinas. Freud and Dewey were good ones.