I mentioned what had happened in the tutorial - that I was the only person of 4 willing to speak using a microphone and everyone else wanted to type. The person, an editor of a Sunday newspaper, was perplexed. They reacted with the same incomprehension as I had.
Then they told me that they sometimes had interns (Praktikanten) at the newspaper. They carry out research by typing a list of questions and sending them via e-mail. And then often they get no response.
"What should I do?" they wail.
"Ring them up," is what they are told.
"How do I do that?"
"Well, you dial the number here and then you talk to them."
As I say...if these people are our future, God help us.
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