It’s probably not a bad thing if you don’t know what that means or haven’t seen it before. More likely it’s a good thing, especially if you haven’t used it before.
It means, “too long did not read”, and has been used increasingly on the Internet when the reader wants to make a point but the original writer’s post or article was too long for that reader to bother with.
There are lots of things that I want to teach my kids, or at least give them a chance to learn. Having the attention span to follow something through to the end is one of them. It’s not one of the things where you can learn from your mistakes either. It’s more of an over-arching attitude that would be very tough to unlearn.
I can’t imagine anything that is too long to read, if it is good enough or interesting enough.
There is a lot being written on the short attention span/instant gratification generation that is coming of age now. I can’t help but wonder what is going to happen to good books, serious movies and the arts in general if nobody has time for more than a sound byte. We may also be in danger of having a workforce at some point down the road that can only work on a project for 5 minutes at a time.
Maybe it’s cyclical and will move back in the other direction. I doubt it.
It means, “too long did not read”, and has been used increasingly on the Internet when the reader wants to make a point but the original writer’s post or article was too long for that reader to bother with.
There are lots of things that I want to teach my kids, or at least give them a chance to learn. Having the attention span to follow something through to the end is one of them. It’s not one of the things where you can learn from your mistakes either. It’s more of an over-arching attitude that would be very tough to unlearn.
I can’t imagine anything that is too long to read, if it is good enough or interesting enough.
There is a lot being written on the short attention span/instant gratification generation that is coming of age now. I can’t help but wonder what is going to happen to good books, serious movies and the arts in general if nobody has time for more than a sound byte. We may also be in danger of having a workforce at some point down the road that can only work on a project for 5 minutes at a time.
Maybe it’s cyclical and will move back in the other direction. I doubt it.
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