Interesting Scam
Ran across this story at Snopes, and I have a question for the FBI special agent Wendy Osborne. Agent Osborne, isn't it possible the author of this scam email might simply be a recent student of most American high schools? Judging from sites like space.com, it's fairly typical of American teenage writing skills.
Dear Dagney,
That's cold. True, but cold. lol.
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Sure looks like the average ability of current US High school graduates that I've had the "pleasure" of dealing with.
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Have to nod sadly in agreement with the first two comments. As much as I love the MajorTeen, she's got a long way to go before she'd be on my short list of folks I'd want to write anything for over my signature.
I'm often amazed at the caliber of writing I see from the younger generation. They've got no idea about what it was like to sit in front of a typewriter (something most of them have never seen outside a museum) with a stack of blank paper and a pile of 3x5 cards with their research on them (something I still do when writing an academic paper.)
Word processors for formatting, figuring out the positioning of footnotes, etc is just light years beyond what we could have ever hoped for in the 70s/80s...and yet we have this up and coming crowd that may reduce literature into a bunch of text messaging gibberish.
I weep for the future.
See you on the high ground!
MajorDad1984
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Major, whenever I meet a home-school mom, I tell her "thank you!". They are the only hope I see for our country's future.
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