Unfortunate quotes fun

These are from the same New York Times story about the college-aged crowd and the difficulties with intermediated communication. The story is interesting. I point it out to you so that you might be reminded of the things that sometimes fall out of our mouths while we are being quoted.

Morgan Judge, a sophomore at Fordham University in New York, said she thought it was “cool” last semester when a professor announced that students could text him. Then she received one from him: “Check your e-mail for an update on the assignment.”

“E-mail has never really been a fun thing to use,” said Ms. Judge, 19. “It’s always like, ‘This is something you have to do.’ School is a boring thing. E-mail is a boring thing. It goes together.”

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Brittney Carver, 20, a junior at the University of Iowa, said she checks her e-mail once a day, more if she’s expecting something. Before college, she used e-mail mostly for buying concert tickets. She said she would never use it if she could avoid it.

“I never know what to say in the subject line and how to address the person,” Ms. Carver said. “Is it mister or professor and comma and return, and do I have to capitalize and use full sentences? By the time I do all that I could have an answer by text if I could text them.”

If you have the same problem Brittney Carver has, by the way, the Internet is an amazing resource. You can look up just about anyone’s educational background for the preferred honorific.