We Dont Like You Voxi

[Merspi]

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Who else has seen the Facebook group "We Dont Like You Voxi"?

I think it's hilarious. It's attracted almost 9k haters of Voxi already!

We Don't Like You Voxi. | Facebook

We've got a teacher posting about it:

Dear Voxi, I'm one of the 'older people' you denigrate in the second half of your opinion piece and I'm wondering who your audience is for this piece: if it's technology users, then you're preaching to the converted, aren't you? If it's people like me, why would you want to alien...ate me by calling me a 'loser'? Who are you, anyway? This is what worries me about communication in the digital world: no-one knows who you are and yet you have such a huge impact on so many lives. Get a life yourself, Foxi Voxi. Get off the Net and get out into the fresh air. Miss Mitchell

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Hahaha, a teacher's opinion! Nice!

Although, you're quite technologically savvy for using Facebook! But I guess that's what your point is.

Technology has its uses -- as a teacher you'd obviously know about the emerging use of ICT in Education. Check out something that a couple of ex-VCErs have started up recently, it's on the EDNA database here:

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And we've got people asking critical language analysis questions like: was Voxi a he or a she? And did you remember the picture?

How do I structure a Language Analysis? - Merspi

Who remembered to pay attention to these things? And what tips do you have for next year's year 11s?

Care to share!

[Multihunter]

Yeah, I saw that. I thought it was rather funny too. I only joined the group because I thought it was funny. I didn't think the article was that bad. But I'm not such a good English student, so what do I know?

I have a friend that swears that "Voxi" is a magazine that has uploaded one of their articles to an online journal. But I think he's wrong, and "Voxi" is just an online magazine writer, and 'cause it's on the internet they use a screen-name. Like I use "Multihunter" to post my opinion here.

I DID remember to add the picture. I meant to write more about it, but I only refered to it at the end when I talked about the thought of combining the human brain with a computer. So it was about the second last sentence that it appeared.

When I first went to do an English practise exam and I got to the language analysis, I realised I had forgotten nearly everything that my English teachers had told me about it and only remembered the names and meanings of the devices. I feel that I did that better than any language analysis I had done before, so I don't think I can say much in the way of tips for year 11's, except make sure you focus on what you are writing; make sure you're not writing something different to what you are thinking.

[Inneed]

Personally i didn't find the article that bad. And i extremely doubt an examiner would mark you down for saying he or she, or whatever, IT IS ANALYSIS OF HOW LANGUAGE IS USED TO PERSUADE THE READER that is the most important.

[Gmac_0]

Originally Posted by Inneed

Personally i didn't find the article that bad. And i extremely doubt an examiner would mark you down for saying he or she, or whatever, IT IS ANALYSIS OF HOW LANGUAGE IS USED TO PERSUADE THE READER that is the most important.

Yeah, the integral thing of language analysis is to analyse SPECIFIC WORDING and then follow through with this by acknowledging the effect of this on the reader. In the article, you could indeed do this at several parts. In all I thought the article wasn't too bad, there have been better ones in the past but also worse examples that I've practiced on also. The fact that the writer was called 'Voxi' really makes no difference. No marks would be taken for something as minor as referring to the person as a he/she. Our teacher said that protocol was generally to assume a male identity if none was given, though really, it doesn't matter at all. I just used 'the writer' the whole way through anyway. Its all up for interpretation, and none of it matters.

[Spluff]

Isn't Voxi the name of the magazine, as denoted by the little bit up the top which had Date > Article > Magazine, with the date, Keyed In, and Voxi, respectively, under it?

[Gmac_0]

Originally Posted by Spluff

Isn't Voxi the name of the magazine, as denoted by the little bit up the top which had Date > Article > Magazine, with the date, Keyed In, and Voxi, respectively, under it?

Arguably, yes, it could be the name of the magazine.

The article is signed off as 'Voxi' and these days thats what a lot of magazines do, rather than list the editor/writers..

[SylvesterBr]

no you fool, read the background information ffs


the online journal was called Ctrl Alt and was said to be written by 'Voxi'

[JonathanM]

Originally Posted by SylvesterBr

no you fool, read the background information ffs


the online journal was called Ctrl Alt and was said to be written by 'Voxi'

I saw this, but as I didn't know what sex Voxi was, I just abandoned referring to him/her altogether and just referred to the "author" or "writer."

[Cobalt]

Same. I simply referred to Voxi as 'the writer'.

[Large Sandwhich]

Originally Posted by Cobalt

Same. I simply referred to Voxi as 'the writer'.

Yup me 3- i wrote the author

[Donald Duck]

I had no idea that Voxi was the writer. I saw the name Voxi at the start of the page (and it looked like a link not a user name) and at the end of the article also. But just because it is at the end it doesn't mean that that is what the author's name is. The background info should have explained this more.

I think i may have lost marks for saying 'he/she' in the beginning of the exam also :| then i just changed to 'their opinion' blah blah blah.
Oh well, it was an alright topic, it just didn't have enough information about the author to write about!

[Spluff]

Originally Posted by SylvesterBr

no you fool, read the background information ffs


the online journal was called Ctrl Alt and was said to be written by 'Voxi'

I didn't even see the background information. Ah well, I'm pretty sure I wrote 'in this magazine, Voxi, the author has' which I guess is somewhat ambiguous and could be taken to mean the author is Voxi as well as the the author is Voxi (though the grammar is somewhat shaky in the latter sense).

[Dermy]

I genuinely thought the whole challenge was to find persuasive techniques within the article, to properly filter out "the cat amongst the pigeons", as they say. In all honesty, I was surprised to see a teacher write into The Age expressing her disgust, NOW THERE'S A FACEBOOK GROUP! Voxi must be the new Chris Crocker among Victorian students...

[Multihunter]

I don't know why, but this reminds me of the whole George Clooney thing in the GAT. (Which was awesome)