Re: professional approach to communication

Posted by anuj sharma on
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 I truely appreciate...

thats a nice thought and we all should bring it in regular practice.

 

With best wishes

 

Anuj

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Carl Boswell <[hidden email]> wrote:

Without any intention to single out one individual, I'd like to address a worsening issue regarding electronic communication.  This is not a diatribe about "artistic license", the difficulties of English as a second language, regional differences in slang or syntax or the subtleties of hanging participles.  What I would like to see is less casual and more appropriate use of the fundamentals of English by those who should know better.

Professional communications should reflect not only the expertise of the individual, but their intellectual acuity as well.  We are not Twittering each other, so we should be writing in complete sentences with proper capitalization and punctuation.  While I may be a Luddite in this regard, doesn't it take more effort to purposely write without these attributes than with them, as all our years of formal training would dictate?

We have enough trouble with the bastardization of the current lexicon.  For instance, when was the last time you "migrated" a chair from one room to another, or you asked yourself what "impacted" your decision to buy a particular car?  In my opinion we should eschew the tendency to accept trendy but lazy language and work to maintain some semblance discipline, if only to slow the progression toward the use of "like" three to five times in every sentence.  (Is that just in America, or has this disheartening trend spread to other English speaking countries?)

I would propose that a given writing or language style should be appropriate for the forum in which it is used.  In the case of this forum, where intelligent and highly educated scientists predominate, we should stick to that level of discourse.

Rantingly yours,
Carl

Carl A. Boswell, Ph.D.
Molecular and Cellular Biology
University of Arizona
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