Comments on: Woman Receives First Ever PhD in Texting

By: Shakespeare (?)

Shakespeare (?) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:14:26 +0000

…and some have gr8ness thrust upon them

By: zida

zida — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:38:57 +0000

woow gr8 DR.tagg ur
wish you send me a copy at:
zidaspeedy@yahoo.com

By: Shakespeare (?)

Shakespeare (?) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:19:46 +0000

2B or not 2B, that is the ?

By: llama

llama — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:21:47 +0000

lol no way

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:15:29 +0000

So here someone talking about some people he or she knows: –

Yeah, he`s doing really well since he got his PhD in Quantum Mechanics and his wife is thinking of doing a PhD in Cognitive Psychology. I also hear that Mary has finished her PhD in Developmental Economics and her son is well on his way to completing his PhD in Nuclear Engineering. As for John, well he is a real success – he got his PhD in Texting!!!???!!!

Is the problem not obvious!?!

By: An Actual Thinker

An Actual Thinker — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:41:37 +0000

Fail.

By: Janie

Janie — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:33:10 +0000

I wouldn’t have given her a degree in texting, but maybe a degree in linguistics instead. c’mon people, there are degrees on language, texting is a language. Maybe it will sell as well as the ebonics dictionary

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:11:15 +0000

i hope there is more to this Phd than meets the eye…. otherwise it is a waste of time…
no one could possibly seriously manage to spend 4 years JUST studying texts and get away with a Phd and the right to call themselves Dr.. how could anyone have the bare face. So.. i give her the benefit of the doubt and really hope it was a Phd well earned and worthy of the title Dr.
Having said that.. i read a piece in our local paper a few weeks ago which was about Research done at St Andrews Uni (no doubt lengthy and expensive research) that concluded that golfers played worse after one bad hit and that it affects the rest of their game… now i could have told you that with no research and no Phd. I think my 1 year old neice could have told you that… NOw THAt is a complete waste of funding!!

By: J42

J42 — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:35:26 +0000

Obviously, in a short extract one is not going to get the full remit of the research or its results. All that one can get is ’sound bites’; so I am sure that many important, significant parts of the research have been under-reported.

We tend to forget that ground-breaking research of the past was regarded with ridicule when it was performed (e.g. experiments with ironstone attracting needles in the 19th century which led directly to the electronic revolution that we rely on today). Research is about discovery that may or may not lead to breakthroughs in understanding or in inventions; not about treading well worn paths on ‘flavour of the month’ topics that someone regards as ‘useful to society’ (although many research funding bodies seem to forget this).

If mankind had restricted itself to merely following ’safe’ topics without branching out into areas that others would consider unorthodox, we would never have left the stone age.

By: BRAIN

BRAIN — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:29:28 +0000

do you see that people that text abundantly demonstrate sensorial lacking as a proof of biological regression??..topic for other dissertation…