Grammar Nazi, or educator?

ttaskmaster said:
It's not about what they mean. It's about how they convey it and how they can definitely do better... I know, because that's how I got better at it myself, and how everyone else got better at it.
It's like your mum telling you not to talk like a London gangstah-rapper.
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This is true. It's also about how you appear.

I had a boss like that, "oh, they know what I mean". Yes, but you look ignorant.
 
I was standing in the Post Office queue earlier and reading a banner poster advertising PO services

Avoid the ques... get our que jumping (something), I could read no further.

But then I read; If your using a franking machine...

Do they employ numpty poster designers and printers? I would have thought that the Post Office at least should be literate? Perhaps they compensate by being extra numerate however I do not see that either. It should be point of principle not to place material likely to denigrate your image in public view.
 
dave28 said:
There is a respectful way of telling someone, the times i have been corrected were almost always put in a very rude way
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Maybe they were trying to be helpful, but you interpreted their help as rude or disrespectful.
Thinks; Jeez, I hope that I never tried to gently help dave28 ‍:eek:
 
Hagar said:
I was standing in the Post Office queue earlier and reading a banner poster advertising PO services

Avoid the ques... get our que jumping (something), I could read no further.

But then I read; If your using a franking machine...
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That's frankly appalling :o especially when you think how many people would have seen it before being displayed!
 
Most people don't even notice really. Just like all these garages around town offering MOT's.
 
A Word document.
I was producing a quotation for technical project. Word decided to help me out. I wanted to type "Borehole Pump Set" Word had other ideas. "Brothel Dump Site" she decided..............
 
Graetzbridge said:
A Word document.
I was producing a quotation for technical project. Word decided to help me out. I wanted to type "Borehole Pump Set" Word had other ideas. "Brothel Dump Site" she decided..............
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You can come build some of those brothel dump sites round our way, if you like.
 
Haggisman said:
Ignoring the apostrophe, isn't MoT more technically correct than MOT?

Unless I'm mistaken, it stands for Ministry of Transport (test), where the "of" is lower case
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So it does! I don't know what I thought it stood for, but it wasn't that.

Now it's going to bug me that "getting an MOT" doesn't make much sense.
 
One that does bother me a bit is the company policy reminder posters spread around on walls at work - someone obviously rushed it and it looks so unprofessional to anyone who might visit. Been up a few years and I keep thinking I should just replace it myself and see how long before anyone notices.
 
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