Yep: how text and email can send mixed messages. The next time you are about to answer with 'yep' you may want to reconsider 'yes' instead.
Source: Supplied YOU text someone a question and get the answer "yep". Are they responding positively, with a spin on "yes", or sulkily with a serve of 'tude? It's one of many slang terms and phrases that's entirely divisive, with some people reading it as innocent affirmation and others taking huge umbrage. Negotiating such ambivalent phraseology is an increasing isssue in the world of text and email, and it all comes down to "media richness". The idea is that a text message cannot read the gestures you make when you speak to someone in person. Take the following examples:. A man texts his girlfriend, "R u missin me? ''. Or a staffer emails a manager: "Was that report OK? '' In both cases "yep" can come off as dismissive. Brent Coker, an internet consumer psychologist at the University of Melbourne, has warned digital communications could be creating the wrong perceptions.
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In the last few days we have heard Barack Obama flooding the zone so as to urge strikes in Syria, within time windows, but without boots on the ground, because of the crossing of a red line which, back in May, threatened to box in the president, or even turn into a green light for Bashar al-Assad, who himself says that "the Middle East is a powder keg, and today the fuse is getting shorter". John Kerry calls people who hesitate "armchair isolationists", which suggests useless snoozers by the fireside rather than thoughtful opponents.
Meanwhile, the media dubs France "America's poodle". So vivid are British memories of that taunt that the very thought of it may have accelerated the quick decision this time to reject military involvement. Metaphors are powerful. This is also the reason why talk of military "strikes" is significant. Something to use for stimulus - leighabercromby - Gmail.
Racism, bullying drove me to suceed, judge tells new Asian law association. Law Institute president Reynah Tang and Justice Emilios Kyrou.
Photo: Peter Glenane The Supreme Court's only Greek judge has drawn on his experiences with bullying to tell lawyers with migrant backgrounds how to overcome racism and succeed. Justice Emilios Kyrou said on Tuesday he arrived in Australia when he was eight and was bullied until he was 15, with racism widespread against non Anglo-Celtic migrants. When you examine their backgrounds carefully, you will often find a common trait: sheer determination to overcome the barriers and succeed professionally.
"I was called 'Wog', 'Choc', 'Greaser', 'Dago' and 'Spag' and was frequently told to go back to my own country. "When I was a teenager, I realised that, as a migrant attending a disadvantaged government school, I would have to study harder than students in better schools in order to have the same opportunities as them," the judge said. Advertisement. Cliteracy 101: Artist Sophia Wallace Wants You To Know The Truth About The Clitoris. New York artist Sophia Wallace wants you -- and everyone you know -- to be cliterate.
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