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you know there is grammer bit**iness, and there is just being anal.

Posted by tRuMaN (aka Truman) Jun 21 '10, 09:06

the official language for an standard is "due to errors or fraud" which every document uses: letter examples, exhibits, everything we get from our research library.

my boss wants me to go through all the documents, programs, etc in our audits and change it to "because of errors or fraud" because he doesn't like the phrase "due to"

give me a fucking break.

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How many people use them? It may be easier for you to set an autocorrect for each person and call it done. - Fuzzy Jun 21, 09:42
Every writer ever has had to deal with irrational editing decisions. -- nm - Reagen Jun 21, 09:31
on a related note, I tried to correct "proforma" to "pro forma" for my first manager here.... - TFox Jun 21, 09:26 4
- heh. -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 21, 09:31
- Yeah. Continue to look stupid. Changing it would only make you look like you can recognize errors and correct them. Can't have that. -- nm - TWuG Jun 21, 09:29 1
  - BP sez: "Wait, that's wrong? Well, if that's wrong, we don't want to be right!" -- nm - Beryllium Jun 21, 09:39
- Tards -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 21, 09:27
Can you point to a Style Guide? or Shrunk & White for a resolution... - OAE Jun 21, 09:25 1
- i mentioned it to him, his rationale "its a personal pet peeve, so fix it" -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 21, 09:26
You can't get fired soon enough. -- nm - Mop (221 lbs) Jun 21, 09:20
It's a shame you work in a small company, because there'll never be a chance you'll appear on Undercover Boss -- nm - Roger More Jun 21, 09:08 1
- yeah, no tv executive would allow this man on any show that they wanted to seem credible. -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 21, 09:14
ctrl+F, replace all ! -- nm - Hotkiss Jun 21, 09:07 1
- yeah sure, i just need to find a way for that to work across word, excel, txt, and wordperfect files at once. - tRuMaN Jun 21, 09:11
grammar. -- nm - it was worth it. si Jun 21, 09:07 1
- hmm, I might have messed that up :) -- nm - Beryllium Jun 21, 09:07

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you know there is grammer bit**iness, and there is just being anal.

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