Dan Markham

France Bids Adieu to ‘E-Mail’ @Wired

Yes, the French take the preservation of their language verrry seriously.

Makes me think of the linguistic hypothesis of Edward Sapir & Benjamin Whorf. Roughly (if I am getting this right): language directly corresponds to cognition i.e. the language we speak is connected to the way we think. I believe, by and large, that the French would agree. I also think that we Americans would disagree. That’s why, when the majority of Americans hear about something like this there is a lot of eye rolling. Of course we have less at stake, culturally, than they do. American culture – and therefore language – is everywhere.

greeting dan. wow, i never knew my banger could grow so big

From my inbox. Direct, succinct and to the point. The way a good spam email should be.

E-mail stress slowing down workers, say researchers

Sentenc.es “A Low-Fi Solution to E-Mail Overload” (appropriated from John Gruber)