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  • Decline in writing standards
  • NZCol
    Full Member

    Glad it's not just me. My background is technical (cryptographer) so in theory I should be rubbish at riting.
    Some of it is so obvious though and that is what scares me I suppose. After I have corrected words I then try and understand what is being said and a lot of the time its a collection of statements with no structure. I put together a 1hr session to talk about presenting information and quite honestly it was an eye opener. My wife is better than me at this as well so she picks my stuff apart. It's not about being smart or posh or anything of that ilk, it's about good standards both written and spoken.
    That stuff is not valued any more and I for one have a lot riding on my reputation so will not let stuff leave if its not of the highest quality.

    eldridge
    Free Member

    My two penn'orth

    (That's two pennies worth)

    between 5-20 years experience

    if the hyphen (which typographically-speaking should be an em dash) stands for the word "to", then "between" is utterly tautologous and should be omitted

    BoardinBob
    Full Member

    From a recent thing on Facebook

    Mike replied to Rachel's post3 hours ago
    "YOUR THICK"

    Ah, it never gets old, that one.

    It's you're, you f*cking imbecile.

    Post 16
    3 replies

    Rachel wrote3 hours ago
    INTERNET TYPIN DOES NOT HAVE TO BE POLITICALLY CORRECT

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