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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
For what you encountered, I'd see about having the relevant stuff online so you could simply provide a link he could open in his browser and read online.
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I DO. I DO HAVE THEM ONLINE. Do they get read?
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooo.
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(I'd take the assertions of high-level Harvard grad with a large sack of salt.)
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Brother, you speak to the choir here. I do not believe that one iota. How can you do that, if you cannot communicate? How was his Masters achieved? In sign language?
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Wikipedia has value as a starting point, not an end. (My SO commissioned a button from a calligrapher acquaintance for me blazoned "Ohhh! Shiny facts!" after watching me chase down various Wikipedia ratholes for several hours as one thing led to another.)
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See above about putting stuff online and providing URLs to it. Asking them do download and read is asking for trouble.
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I
do that. We have GOBS of stuff online. I even have (I loathe admitting this), little
CARTOON VIDEOS of things, saying, "go here, see that, click this..."
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You may still have to. Since he can't seem to follow simple instructions, or comprehend what he reads, I don't see a viable long term relationship here.
(Incidentally, out of curiosity, what's the topic of his primary source Wikipedia tome?)
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Dennis
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On the long-term...I agree. But we've made his books, and I need to make sure that he's reasonably content. I'm sure that his communication skills would become markedly better if he decided to complain to Paypal or his credit card company. Can't risk that.
The Topic? The one that you won't FIND in Wikipedia?
I just make the damn books, mon.
Hitch