Comments for Kate Solomon

Comment on On buying a house by sam

sam — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:48:05 +0000

The worst part of part two is that you still have to post stuff. They need it today but they don’t yet have an email address so you can’t email them. What about a fax… a what?

“Sir, I know you are in a contract race, but please put the form in the post, we’ll deal with it in the morning.”

Comment on E-book readers – just because you can, doesn’t mean you should by Kat

Kat — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:31:02 +0000

Ha, not to worry Solly — I’ll just torrent it! ;)

Really good post though; it sums up my feelings on ebooks and ereaders exactly. I do think it’s a different story on existing products, such as phones or tablets — because they have different uses. But try reading a whole book on your BlackBerry’s screen! No thanks.

Comment on From extolling the virtues of lengthy blog posts… by silner

silner — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:41:18 +0000

I like those slippers

Comment on TLDNR and why you should never ever use it. Ever. by Clariice

Clariice — Fri, 13 May 2011 12:28:39 +0000

When I, a poor student first got my mobile about 7-8 years ago, I had to limit the characters due to the 300 texts a month limit. As such, numbers and symbols came into the picture and we had to use ‘2′ to replace ‘to’ and ‘too’ etc. Sentences became grammatically incorrect and singular/plural forms were thrown out of the window.

Recently I got my new andriod mobile(yay!). Whenever I type a very long message exceeding 3 texts at a go, it gets converted into a multimedia message! (WTH) So I had to convert back to my old ways!(not again!)

So one thing for certain, it’s not pure human nature(aka laziness) that’s causing this abbreviations and shortening of words/phrases but rather £ and poor logic programming(=environmental?) factors which pushes folks towards this ’short-cut’ behaviour but also perhaps in this fast moving world accompanied by the constant amount of time we have, we decide that we need to reduce/minimize the length of our activities so as to cramp even more events into our calendar.

Quantity or quality, you decide :)

Comment on Secret photos of famous people by Meena Merchant

Meena Merchant — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:36:22 +0000

It’s kind of hard to swallow the fact that the multitude of talent that Depp illustrated on the big screen throughout his whole film career especially with a movie like Pirates of the Caribbean. Thanks for all of the good times Depp!

Comment on Being Pinocchio by Kari Triblett

Kari Triblett — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:20:05 +0000

Nice post!

Comment on Book Club of One: Twilight Eclipse by Arletta Harter

Arletta Harter — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:11:16 +0000

I genuinely liked this movie! Twilight really is great.

Comment on An inglorious about-turn by John

John — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 12:57:19 +0000

hey, nice blog…really like it and added to bookmarks. keep up with good work

Comment on TLDNR and why you should never ever use it. Ever. by Steph

Steph — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:25:51 +0000

There should be a word to describe a non-acronym initial letter abbreviation! I’m not sure there is…

Comment on TLDNR and why you should never ever use it. Ever. by katiesol

katiesol — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:40:18 +0000

Or just an abbreviation, initialism doesn’t really seem to be a word. Gosh language is pesky.