Turning a statement into a question by suffixing it with "yeah?"
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doesnt beat the letter i had telling me my son is suspended from cadets it started with
"i am writing to inform you" erm yea it is a letter after all .....
"that XXXX XXXXXXXX has been suspended without prejudice" surely there is prejudice because he was suspended based on another parent claiming 4 people have been "bullying" there son who has aparently cried 17 times since joining cadets.....
one of the staff members just didnt go into cadets upon hearing the news lol.
its a bit of harmless name calling between a bunch of guys everyone has nicknames there its not our fault if this kid is overly sensitive and hes on about joining teh army lol.
"i am writing to inform you" erm yea it is a letter after all .....
"that XXXX XXXXXXXX has been suspended without prejudice" surely there is prejudice because he was suspended based on another parent claiming 4 people have been "bullying" there son who has aparently cried 17 times since joining cadets.....
one of the staff members just didnt go into cadets upon hearing the news lol.
its a bit of harmless name calling between a bunch of guys everyone has nicknames there its not our fault if this kid is overly sensitive and hes on about joining teh army lol.
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I would have fired you on the spot. Douche. Obey the hierachy.
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Don't want a career in retail, besides, no personal reference is given: All I get is how long I worked there, my absence rate, and any active warnings. So I can't leave for 8 weeks
My reference is glowing based on those 3 criteria, once the warning expires anyway. 
lol I wonder how you watch 24
a) on TV
b) the DVD you purchased
c) from episodes downloaded off dodgy websites....
peace and ****ing, yeah?
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Eh? Random, useless and ridiculously biased story that has nothing to do with the OP alert?
Have you ever written or received a letter before?
Eh? Random, useless and ridiculously biased story that has nothing to do with the OP alert?
Have you ever written or received a letter before?
yea and your learned not to start one with "i am writing"
its pretty obvious they arent phoning , singing , talking
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yea and your learned not to start one with "i am writing"
its pretty obvious they arent phoning , singing , talking
Quoted to protect this beauty from a ninja edit. That is all.
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Unless, of course, the nickname is "Crinkleface" because the kid has burn scarring or something.
Nicknames aren't always endearing, or a lolworthy matter.
if you learned to start a letter with "i am writing" you learnt wrong.
but these days english is a lazy language so it wouldnt suprise me.
DON?T start with clich? phrases like ?I am writing because…? or ?With regards to…?. This simply appears that you don?t know where to start. The real message won?t start until after those phrases, so why not eliminate the unnecessary and uncreative words?
if your writing a letter and want to instantly get the persons attention show some inteligence
He learnt right.
Writing tips from someone who has used your instead of you're, persons without an apostrophe and misspelled intelligence, all within one sentence. You couldn't make it up.
He learnt right.
Writing tips from someone who has used your instead of you're, persons without an apostrophe and misspelled intelligence, all within one sentence. You couldn't make it up.
its almost 3am and im trying to watch a film while alt tabbing and browsing teh forums.
please forgive me for not trying to hard
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It's perfectly correct to start a formal letter with "I am writing to inform you ...", in fact it is simply good practice to do so as it clearly sets out the position. While you can obviously infer the reason why you are being written to this is the accepted practice in the same way that you write "Yours faithfully" at the end of letters you start with "Dear Sir" i.e. you don't know the recipient personally and "Yours sincerely" to those you do know.
Because it is a formal letter and there is an accepted format to follow, if your contention is that English is a lazy language then why remove the very evidence of having learnt it correctly. From there it only seems a short step to using text speak. Cliche is how you spell it if you were checking.
You did what?
We're thinking about implementing these 'return/back to work interview.' For us the idea was to try and make people think twice about bunking off work for no reason, but obviously you cant just have interviews with people who you think are bunking off. So everyone has to have one. (Prolly get out of it with a doctors note, dont know the details)
Seems to have some effect though if its causing some annoyance if only because the guy himself irritates you.
Seems to have some effect though if its causing some annoyance if only because the guy himself irritates you.
Yeah..
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How does this bear any relevence to any of the points in this thread?