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Conversations with Spambots, Part 2

Posted on January 21, 2012March 25, 2018 by DebGod

Today  I sat down at the computer to see a new IM from a potential new friend.  I didn’t recognize the screenname, but that’s not unusual. I considered briefly that it may have been from a spambot, but “mattp204” didn’t seem like a sexbot’s screenname, so I responded. After a couple of lines, however, the…

“Sliding Board” v. “Slide”: Some Notes on the Mid-Atlantic Dialect

Posted on October 13, 2011March 25, 2018 by DebGod

When I moved from Philadelphia to Buffalo a handful of years ago, I thought I was pretty prepared for the major dialect differences. Pronunciation-wise, I had steeled myself for the Western New York pronunciation of words like car and crab shack, and I knew I wouldn’t be understood if I asked for a glass of…

Conversations with Spambots, Part 1

Posted on September 11, 2011March 25, 2018 by DebGod

(Last week, this was my first post ever on my newish Tumblr account.  Then I realized Tumblr doesn’t do what I want it to, so I will probably never use it again.  Therefore, I am reposting here.) A few times in the last few months, I’ve received random unsolicited IMs from spam accounts trying to…

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