Comments on: Email as Literature? http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/email/ Introducing brilliant authors to the blogosphere. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:43:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: John Cowan http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/email/comment-page-1/#comment-24040 John Cowan Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:44:20 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/email/#comment-24040 <i>LOL. IMHO. These short-cuts are effective at communication, but generic and automatic, shorn of individuality.</i> And how are they so different from the O.K, P.D.Q., N.G., and V.T.Y. of previous generations, eh? This is just another version of the tiresome rant about how the world is going to hell and the children don't respect the ways of their parents that we've been hearing since the Egyptians invented writing five thousand years ago. LOL. IMHO. These short-cuts are effective at communication, but generic and automatic, shorn of individuality.

And how are they so different from the O.K, P.D.Q., N.G., and V.T.Y. of previous generations, eh?

This is just another version of the tiresome rant about how the world is going to hell and the children don’t respect the ways of their parents that we’ve been hearing since the Egyptians invented writing five thousand years ago.

]]> By: Edward Champion’s Return of the Reluctant » Roundup http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/email/comment-page-1/#comment-23803 Edward Champion’s Return of the Reluctant » Roundup Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:53:47 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/email/#comment-23803 [...] After reading Julie Phillips’s James Triptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, I have many conclusions. But the one that sticks out the most (which indeed I still possessed even before picking up the Phillips book): Ursula K. Le Guin, hubba hubba! Yowzahs! Rowr! Considerable correspondence between Sheldon and various science fiction writers can be found within the book. But it is Le Guin’s volleys, laden with wit, intelligence, and an irresistable wordplay, that made me swoon. Letter writing may very well be a dying art — something abdicated to the “dats cool” one-sentence truncations of contemporary email. Because of this, I think it’s high time to remind readers that Le Guin is still around and still pumping out interesting books. It’s also high time to remind all emailers to up their game! (More recent news on the literary merits of email here.) [...] [...] After reading Julie Phillips’s James Triptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, I have many conclusions. But the one that sticks out the most (which indeed I still possessed even before picking up the Phillips book): Ursula K. Le Guin, hubba hubba! Yowzahs! Rowr! Considerable correspondence between Sheldon and various science fiction writers can be found within the book. But it is Le Guin’s volleys, laden with wit, intelligence, and an irresistable wordplay, that made me swoon. Letter writing may very well be a dying art — something abdicated to the “dats cool” one-sentence truncations of contemporary email. Because of this, I think it’s high time to remind readers that Le Guin is still around and still pumping out interesting books. It’s also high time to remind all emailers to up their game! (More recent news on the literary merits of email here.) [...]

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