In fact, there are plenty of UIs for mail and other services that have changed hardly at all in a decade; just use those.
Would you be so kind as to name some? And please don't suggest that I try to teach my 78-year-old mother how to use pine. Thanks.
Wait until Dad's having a heart attack and Mum can't ring the ambulance because her phone UI has changed again and she's too upset to be able to figure it out and THERE'S NO BLOODY TIME for that nonsense in any case.
Hyperbolic enough for ya?
Where is this restaurant that serves free-range home-schooled beef?
Try explaining this to a parent approaching 80 who doesn't like it when you try to get him to learn new keyboard shortcuts.
Now we just need to think of a buzzword in "S" to prefix it with...
If you regard staying in touch with your family as a "chore", just say so--but don't use the medium as an excuse.
When you and they are oceans apart, having something that your mom, dad, or kid physically touched/made/wrote/sent can mean quite a lot to some of us.
A letter or postcard from Sweden takes 3 days to the US and 4 to Australia. And yes, I send them. (YMAPSMV.)
Yeah, normally I'd've run it by one of my Portuguese or Brazilian colleagues, but strike while the iron is hot and all that.
OTOH... A Facebook without my 37-years-old cousin's incessant stream of junior-high-grade nigger and peepee jokes might be a Facebook I wasn't embarrassed to belong to.
Nonononono... Once again you've failed to localise properly. Try this:
Vocês todos são vacas. Vacas dizer mú. MÚÚÚÚÚÚÚÚÚ! MÚÚÚÚÚÚÚÚÚÚ! Múúúúú vacas MÚÚÚÚÚ! Múúúú dizer as vacas. VOCÊ VACAS!!
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No fucking inverted interrogation or exclamation points.
Further proof that Slashdot is indeed mired in 1997 or thereabouts.
If you work in my org, the first day of the week is Thursday.
Sorry, for this article, it needs to be "Todos de Uds. son vacas. Vacas dicen mú. MÚÚÚÚÚ! MÚÚÚÚÚ! Mú dicen las vacas. UDS. SON VACAS!!"
In a region with a history of actual political assassinations and disappearances, I'd be quite concerned about a possible followup visit. But I guess that's just me.
Do you often ask rhetorical questions?
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire
