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   Guilty Bastard to Kenny McCormack   
   Re: Gene Hackman,95, & wife Betsy Arakaw   
   05 Mar 25 11:55:42   
   
   From: ididit@getaway.car   
      
   On 2025-03-01 11:25 AM, Kenny McCormack wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   > Larc   wrote:   
   >> On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 11:30:58 -0000 (UTC), Mongo Da Cat    
   wrote:   
   >>   
   >> | Several of the initial news reports have indicated that their   
   >> | deaths could not be attributed to "fowl play"...   
   >> |   
   >> | That's what happens when AI bots write and proofreads news copy.   
   >>   
   >> It also happens when you hire people who either didn't get or largely   
   >> ignored education in the English language.  I'm noticing increasing   
   >> spelling and syntax errors in news items that I suspect are not products   
   >> of AI.   
      
   > Welcome to the texting generation.  Where spelling is irrelevant.   
   >   
   > It's all fonetik.   
      
   A while back, a would-be job applicant emailed me a message that read,   
   "I want 2 work 4 U." I deleted it five seconds after I read it.   
      
   I find that I often have to re-read news headlines because they don't   
   make any sense due to poor sentence structure.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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