ttj - Tom Jones

A dark age is a period for which historians have little in the way of written records, and for which they are thus unable to do much history.  People sometimes speculate on whether we are currently in a dark age.  At first glance, we may appear to have written records, and enough of them will probably be durable enough.  But what if they are gobbledegook, due to confusion around pronouns? In the pictured example, I found 7 sentences containing multiple pronouns, including possessive pronouns.  In 3 of them, the author takes schismatic perspectives within the sentence, coming out with such howlers as "You can now set a password for my yallo account".  But they are not talking about their yallo account.  They are talking about my yallo account, and from their perspective, talking to me, they should say "your".  Again, this is an aspect of language that two-year-olds should be able to master.

In January, I bought a Netgear Orbi from Amazon for 1773 GBP(2025).  This is a fair old whack for a wifi system. The product is entirely defective. Its instructions, like many "products" currently, consist of installing their app and following the app's prompts.  I scanned the QR, installed the app, ran the app.  You can't proceed in the app without creating an account.  Again, this is currently considered acceptable and even normal.  So I entered my email address and make a password that conformed to their character class rules. I tried logging in.  I got the message "Email or password invalid".  I tried some more times. Then I thought perhaps I have to validate my email address.  So I went to my email, clicked on the link, and got the encouraging message " Congratulations! Your email has been successfully verified. You may close this page and log in to your account". But when I tried to log into the account from the app, it still didn't work....

USSD / short code / quick code commands to enable or disable voicemail on a JT (Guernsey) mobile line Disable voicemail ##002# send Enable voicemail To enable voicemail, you would send three commands: one for no-reply, one for unreachable, and one for phone-in-use.  The voicemail number to which you forward is the same in each case, so: **61*00441481818818# send **62*00441481818818# send **67*00441481818818# send

  The web page that is supposed to say when your bins in Oxford are collected still says "Your Bin Zone is error".  And the green and blue bin messages just have a comma or something.  It's been like this since I got the house last year.   Has no one in Oxford been able to find out when their bins are collected, for the last six months? Come on Oxford brainiacs, make your ruddy web site work!

  Two more attempts to use Guernsey Post's web site.  Two more emails to custserv@guernseypost.com because they only have pretend forms, not actual forms you can submit.  Instead of form submission, it's an infinite series of identifying stairs, fire hydrants, and so on.

Another example of the "your my" nonsense produced by corporations calling customers' things "my" things. Let's mark this for pronouns: In total, I've identified 12 correct pronouns, 6 incorrect pronouns, given from the wrong perspective, and one direct clash between a correct one and an incorrect one, in the form of "their my JT account".  This should be a dead giveaway that something is wrong. As well, observe this perfunctory, bossy, yet passive tone that they take.  "all customers are required" to such and such.  Let's try this.  "All telecoms providers are required to provide ipv6 service".  Oh, that didn't work.  "All entities are required to desist from calling other entities' things 'my'".  Oh, that didn't work either. This is the real pronoun crisis.