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This Embarrasses You and I*: Grammar Gaffes Invade the Office in an Age of Informal[...]
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| June 19, 2012
| Sue Shellenbarger
Posted on 06/20/2012 6:30:54 AM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative
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Another mile marker on the highway of civilizational decline.
To: Constitutionalist Conservative
“is dis dee ebony lounge?”
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posted on
06/20/2012 6:32:53 AM PDT
by
brivette
To: Constitutionalist Conservative
Where's yer grammer?
My grammer's in the kitchen baking cookies.
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posted on
06/20/2012 6:36:45 AM PDT
by
Slump Tester
(What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
To: Constitutionalist Conservative
“..Slipping skills due to email, twitter, etc.”
The real culprit is the publik skool system where self esteem, political correctness and liberal brainwashing is more important than teaching grammar.
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posted on
06/20/2012 6:36:46 AM PDT
by
Reddy
(B.O. stinks)
To: Constitutionalist Conservative
People speak, like, really bad, you know.
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posted on
06/20/2012 6:37:05 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious that they are trying hard to ignore)
To: Constitutionalist Conservative
“..Slipping skills due to email, twitter, etc.”
The real culprit is the publik skool system where self esteem, political correctness and liberal brainwashing is more important than teaching grammar.
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posted on
06/20/2012 6:37:05 AM PDT
by
Reddy
(B.O. stinks)
Comment #7 Removed by Moderator
To: Constitutionalist Conservative
Ain't that the truth.
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posted on
06/20/2012 6:37:40 AM PDT
by
lysie
To: Constitutionalist Conservative
Managers are fighting an epidemic of grammar gaffes in the workplace. Many of them attribute slipping skills to the informality of email, texting and Twitter where slang and shortcuts are common. Such looseness with language can create bad impressions with clients, ruin marketing materials and cause communications errors, many managers say.To a degree perhaps. But the big problem stems from our failure to properly educate.
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posted on
06/20/2012 6:38:20 AM PDT
by
bcsco
To: Constitutionalist Conservative
Obama routinely uses the article "a" prior to a noun beginning with a vowel . . . this from a "Harvard Law School graduate (magna cum laude LOL!!!), "Editor" of the Harvard Law School Journal, and broadly touted "smartest man."
Show me the records. I don't for one minute believe that Obama earned any of his degrees; I believe he was given them.
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posted on
06/20/2012 6:39:08 AM PDT
by
Sudetenland
(Member of the BBB Club - Bye-Bye-Barry!!! President Barack "Down Low" Obama)
To: Constitutionalist Conservative
To: Constitutionalist Conservative
And sooner or later Mr. Garner will be sued because he hasn’t established the job related link between grammar and spelling and packing boxes.
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posted on
06/20/2012 6:39:33 AM PDT
by
Truth29
To: Constitutionalist Conservative
“Anyways” instead of “Anyway” irritates me a great deal.
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posted on
06/20/2012 6:43:49 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: lysie
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posted on
06/20/2012 6:45:09 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Reddy
Don’t you mean “... ARE more important...”
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posted on
06/20/2012 6:45:56 AM PDT
by
Doctor 2Brains
(If the government were Paris Hilton, it could not score a free drink in a bar full of lonely sailors)
To: AppyPappy
When I hear someone speaking and constantly sprinkling in the “like” word, I find myself not listening to what they are saying, but counting how many times they use “like”....a pet peeve of mine.
To: Constitutionalist Conservative
The under 30 workforce is particularly illiterate and lacking in communication skills. They cannot puncuate an email, draft a business letter, ask coherent questions, and use “like” and “you know” in every uttered sentence.
Stalin’s useful idiots.
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posted on
06/20/2012 6:46:57 AM PDT
by
NoKoolAidforMe
(I'm clinging to my God and my guns. You can keep the change.)
To: Constitutionalist Conservative
My pet peeve is “yourself”
As in
“How are you doing?”
“Fine, and yourself?”
Argh!
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posted on
06/20/2012 6:46:57 AM PDT
by
chrisser
(Starve the Monkeys!)
To: Constitutionalist Conservative
This Embarrasses You and I Everyone knows it should be, "This embarrasses you and MYSELF". /s
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posted on
06/20/2012 6:47:15 AM PDT
by
1raider1
To: Reddy
The real culprit is the publik skool system where self esteem, political correctness and liberal brainwashing is more important than teaching grammar.
The real culprit is the publik skool system where self esteem, political correctness and liberal brainwashing ARE more important than teaching grammar.
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posted on
06/20/2012 6:48:07 AM PDT
by
KingLudd
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