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June 19, 2008, 3:32 pm
In Part II of this two-part Tech Therapy miniseries, Warren Arbogast and Scott Carlson discuss what chief information officers should look for when interviewing at a college. What are the good and bad signs?
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Technology continues to change college life, and each month The Chronicle's Tech Therapy podcast offers analysis and advice on what the latest gadgets and buzzwords mean for professors, administrators, and students.
Join hosts Jeff Young, a Chronicle reporter (left), and Warren Arbogast, a technology consultant who works with colleges, for a lively discussion—as well as interviews with leading thinkers in technology.
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4 Responses to Episode 25: Hiring a CIO, Part II: Do You Take the Job?
Here in Oklahoma we have solved the formal/informal problem with “y’all.” Y’all is informal singular. Oklahoman being a very precise language, there are different forms for the plural. While “y’all” is sometimes used in talking to a group of people, if you are specifically addressing two people, you would say “both y’all;” if there are three, then it’s “all three y’all.” If there are more than three, the proper form is “all y’all.” We hardly ever use the formal “you,” since we want all y’all to feel like part of the family. When I returned to my native Oklahoma after many years in other states and countries, I noticed that it had become much more culturally diverse. But when I went to a Chinese restaurant, the waiter (whose accent indicated he was a fairly recent arrival) came up to the table and said “now what would y’all like to drink.”
I grew up outside Philadelphia and knew several Quaker families who used thou/thee/thine within the family, especially to children. “You” was used outside the family so George Fox’s political point had been lost.
I remember thinking that the informal thou sounded pretty.
One note– if the Friends you knew used the form _thou_, it was a back-formation, a ressurected form from literary and KJV / RSV English that had become absent from Quaker English long before. The general Quaker usage had _thee_ for both nominative and objective, i.e. subjects and all objects. So if thee heard Quakers using it, they acquired it from literary sources and not from ordinary spoken Quakerese.
Mason243 – what about the middle-Pennsylvanian “weuns?”