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What Corporate America Can't Build: A Sentence
New York Times ^
| December 7, 2004
| SAM DILLON
Posted on 12/07/2004 12:34:40 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Knitting A Conundrum
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posted on
12/07/2004 10:10:39 AM PST
by
Redleg Duke
(Pass Tort Reform Now! Make the bottom clean for the catfish!)
To: ccmovrwc
Have you ever played "Boardroom Bingo"?
To: NoControllingLegalAuthority
"Do you mean you actually reached a live person by telephone?"No, lots of people screen calls with the voice mail system. Sometimes it was effective to drop in for a visit.
123
posted on
12/07/2004 11:11:34 AM PST
by
RushLake
(Permission from the UN...we don't need no stinking permission slip from the UN.)
To: Judith Anne
Well, actually I grew up here in the states, though my mother is German. My Dad, however, spoke mostly in grunts. I don't know who to blame it on (my lack of syntax) . . . public schooling? :)
124
posted on
12/07/2004 12:09:01 PM PST
by
June Cleaver
(in here, Ward . . .)
To: tm22721
Wanting more formality in writing smacks of Jane Austen snobbery, not better communications.What I got from the article was not that people want more formality in writing, but simply regular English. Like many fields, writing has some rules. Anarchy in writing leads to misunderstanding and frequently, as the article points out, to hard feelings. Actually, one of the subjects of the article was criticized for being too formal!
125
posted on
12/07/2004 12:22:10 PM PST
by
TChris
(You keep using that word. I don't think it means what yHello, I'm a TAGLINE vir)
To: AntiGuv
I like your semicolon suggestion better than my suggested period between those closely related sentences. (Comma splices are a no-no.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
To: Knitting A Conundrum
Comes from reading way too much 18th and 19th century writing, where a paragraph easily and often runs over one page.My eyes start to glaze over if I have to read any Jane Austen or Thomas Hardy. I love listening to someone else read them on audiotape, but I just can't bear to read them myself!
128
posted on
12/09/2004 2:36:18 PM PST
by
SuziQ
(W STILL the President)
To: SuziQ
I have trouble with Hardy myself. I love his poetry, but I just can't do his novels.
129
posted on
12/09/2004 4:04:34 PM PST
by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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