"We will response you"

[marybourg]

That was the message in the automated e-mail I received from the manufacturer of my tv digital converter box when I e-mailed to tell them that the box, which formerly had to re-scanned every time I turned on the set, now doesn't even bring up its menu. Since we only watch tv 3-4 hours a year, mostly for a national event or emergency, the free box was as far as we were willing to go. Although my husband's tech savvy for an old guy, he IS an old guy; a WWII vet. Fortunately we got to see the election night and inauguration. The "free" market giveth and the the "free" market taketh away.

[Sal Minella]

1. When you are duly responsed as notificated, please to inform us of

resulting clarifying advices. Thanking you for your personally assistants in resolve this matter.

[cagesoulman]

4. This, my friend, is DUZY material

It's certainly funnier than most of the stuff that appeared on that thread last night.

[Sal Minella]

9. Anybody can do this...

...after one semester of working as first reader on English compositions of college freshmen (including football players).

One's sense of language structure simply never recovers.
All linguistic boundaries remain permanently herniated.

The recent tendency to use "woman" or "women" as a descriptor for any number of females (one or many) does rather throw me for a loop, though -- and "incidences" instead of "incidents" still causes me real pain.

But I am too kind to hope all these people have accidence.

[Berry Cool]

12. I had a great journalism professor for news editing class who told me that.

Told me she was losing her ability to spell because she'd read too many student papers in which certain words were misspelled the exact same way over and over, to the point where the misspellings were beginning to write themselves in her memory over the correct spellings.

[pipi_k]

19. OMG I thought it was just me...!!!

For example, I heard "nu-cu-lar" so many times in eight years that a few times I caught myself pronouncing it the same way. :scared:


And there are other things, like forgetting how to spell certain words because I see them misspelled so often on discussion boards, etc. It's distressing, to say the least.

[Sal Minella]

23. Some people in my family are becoming disenchanted with Obama,

but I am still just thrilled beyond words to have a President who understands that an English sentence requires a subject and a predicate (having some relationship to each other).

And every time I hear Obama say "new-klee-ar" I feel all warm and happy.
Apparently I am a person of truly shallow political acumen.

[Sal Minella]

21. By the second batch of compositions, I had learned to write "their" and

underline that, and then write "thier" with a big X marked through it, and leave this piece of paper on the table beside the pile of compositions. True story. Wouldn't be surprised if your professor did this too.

Another thing that always baffled me was a phrase that recurred again and again -- "In this modern day in which we live" -- this phrase appeared in their writing so frequently that I eventually assumed it was some sort of electrical wave linking the brains of all the freshmen. Or freshman, whichever you prefer.

[marybourg]

24. "Him and me" went to the party. nt.

[Sal Minella]

25. Him and me went to the party because it was in honor of he and I.

[mmonk]

22. Great response. You responsed well.

[madeline_con]

2. Great. It's made in China, so the email is too, apparently.

I spent the day at Mom's trying to get hers to work. She wants the box on her little set in the kitchen so she can watch while cooking. It did the same thing you're saying. And still "no signal".

Thanks but no thanks for the nostalgic snow. I don't think the "digital revolution" is going to be what was predicted. The phone lines are jammed, and it's hurricane season. People are pissed!

[cloudbase]

3. They're probably busy officing.

Message them again.

[necso]

5. Your converter box

rescanned every time you turned it on?

I only know about my converter (Zenith DTT901), but the menu only comes up if you request it (except for the first time) -- and likewise either the rescan or add-channels functions (through the menu).

Sounds like maybe yours wasn't storing the settings, which means busted from the get-go.

Or maybe there's some confusion.

[marybourg]

7. I had to re-scan it myself almost every time I turned it on

since it had no digital signal every time. And every time I rescanned, it behaved differently and since the instructions are incomprehensible I was guessing at what to do.

[necso]

10. If you can manage to rescan (full scan) again

(not "EZ Add" or a similarly named add-channels function), then you should be getting the more or less final broadcast-channel assignments. (Although virtually-numbered digital-channels like you actually watch (18-1; 18-2 ... 18-n, which could be broadcast on like say uhf channel 58) may get added or dropped -- so normally use the add-channels function hereafter.)

Scan (rescan) may be a menu option -- or you may have to go to the setup option.

One of the problems with digital is the signal "dropping in and out" (rising above and falling below the necessarily signal-quality-level for digital use), so if you scan when you're not getting a good signal (on whatever broadcast-channel, like say uhf channel 58), then the corresponding set of virtually-numbered digital channels (18-1; 18-2 ...) may drop out of your list (which is one reason you normally add-channels -- but not right now!).

There may be antenna issues, especially if you had poor or mediocre analog reception. However, there is probably a function on your converter to help you adjust the antenna (per channel) to get the strongest signal.

[AlCzervik]

6. in Soviet Russia Response will you!

[Richard Steele]

18. ROFL! nm

[rrneck]

8. Care for some Onion?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AyVh1_vWYQ

Sony's stupid piece of shit box thing that doesn't do the goddamn thing it's supposed to.

[Berry Cool]

14. I'm wondering if there isn't some kind of glitch with the digital thing.

I had to turn on my cable box twice to get the channels to come up last night.

[rrneck]

17. Could be. There are a lot of broadcasters to coodinate. nt

[Bluebear]

11. Here are some instructions to tide you over >>>>

[krispos42]

13. Reading in Tongues...?

:blink:

[Bluebear]

15. Tad disport of time grown man tatelage.

[Sal Minella]

26. Prythee, methinks "tatelage" may be like unto "minuet?"

[Bluebear]

27. Do not play asperity games with me.

[Sal Minella]

28. Please don't get your heat rupture liquid all roiled up.

Lets just clear the bilge dasto and be friends, okay???

[Bluebear]

29. I love it when you talk to me like that

:toast:

[Sal Minella]

30. Oh honey, you shoulda knowed me in the old days..... n/t

[Deja Q]

16. I betcha an American wrote that. Just like how an American made the actual product...

:sarcasm:

[pipi_k]

20. One of the fun things about my last job

was computer entry (and trying to translate) the brochures for industrial machinery that was made in Japan.

Yes, they were written in English, but sometimes it was English that was so fractured that it was anyone's guess what they were talking about.

It was highly entertaining at times....

:7