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- From: eck@panix.com (Mark Eckenwiler)
- Subject: Re: New York Times article on BBS's
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.140436.13451@panix.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 14:04:36 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.080858.145@sdg.dra.com> <rdippold.711661229@cancun>
- Organization: Culturale Elit
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- In <rdippold.711661229@cancun>, rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com sez:
- >sean@sdg.dra.com writes:
- >>The business section of the Sunday (July 19) New York Times had an article
- >>on BBS's. Overall a pretty standard intro to BBS article. But one thing
- >>caught my attention, the pronunciation of the word "sysop." I've always
- >>heard "sysops" pronounced as "sis-ops", not "sigh-sops" as written in the
- >>article. Is this a New York accent?, or have I been saying it wrong for
- >>the last twelve years?
- >
- >Oh Lord. Just remember the reason newspapers rarely write about
- >computers, science, or third parties. They're completely ignorant of
- >them. Their science person is often a journalism or philosophy or
- >english major who actually took a course in biology.
-
- As much as I hate to agree with Ron Dippold on anything, his
- speculation is dead-bang right on this one. I went to college with
- Judith Berck, the author of the piece in the Times, and can vouch for
- her unfamiliarity with anything vaguely resembling hard science. (For
- the record, she has a new book out on the daily lives of homeless
- children; title is something like _In Their Own Voices_.)
-
- In case anyone cares, David Sanger -- the idiot who keeps writing
- pieces in the Times about computers that have "512,000" bytes of RAM
- -- is also a classmate. I have no idea what he majored in.
-
- --
- For a Big Lie, call 1-800-424-9090
-
- Mark Eckenwiler eck@panix.com ...!cmcl2!panix!eck
-