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Old 08-24-2012, 03:23 PM   #3181
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Old 08-24-2012, 04:30 PM   #3182
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Microsoft Office thinks I'm Portuguese and Google thinks I'm Filipino.

I don't know why.
Better than the micro office thinking you're soft, and the Filipinos thinking you're google.
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Old 08-27-2012, 03:36 PM   #3183
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Molly Ringwald has a book out. I read an interview. She said "how many actresses do you know that write?"

Well, Molly, honey...I love you really, but how many actresses do you know who write well?

Who, Molly. Who. Who refers to people. That refers to things.

Yes yes, I know that someone could dig up something on the interwebz finding some kind of justification for this 'nails on a chalkboard' idea of saying 'people that' but I find it to be a way of justifying lazy grammar.

I shudder whenever I read 'that' when 'who' is called for. I don't consider myself some amazing grammarian. It's just common sense.
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Old 08-27-2012, 04:24 PM   #3184
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I have to think on that one.
I'm sure I use "people that" but I understand why it might be wrong.

I will guard myself against it in future!

I still shimmy around the word "git" which my teacher when I was nine had an aversion to.
Same with "a lot". "A lot is something you bid on in an auction, not a degree of quantity!"
Yes Mrs Quant (SIL to Mary, incidentally).
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Old 08-27-2012, 07:29 PM   #3185
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Same with "a lot". "A lot is something you bid on in an auction, not a degree of quantity!"
A degree of quantity is spelled alot.
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Old 08-27-2012, 07:46 PM   #3186
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How many actresses DO, you know that, right?

The emphasis may have been on the wrong syllable.
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Old 08-27-2012, 07:49 PM   #3187
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alot

Alot is anot aword
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Old 08-27-2012, 09:00 PM   #3188
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alot ain't no word!

Seriously. Neither is irregardless, regardless of how some will protest.
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Old 08-27-2012, 09:02 PM   #3189
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How many actresses DO, you know that, right?

The emphasis may have been on the wrong syllable.
Ha! You might be. Right?
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Old 08-28-2012, 06:58 PM   #3190
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If anyone needs any green slime, I have heaps I can give you.
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Old 08-28-2012, 07:41 PM   #3191
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I'm sorry. Is that a pregnancy complication? Green slime?
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Old 08-29-2012, 05:58 AM   #3192
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lol...no. It's a snot complication.
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Old 08-29-2012, 06:33 AM   #3193
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Whew! Better that, though snot ain't so fun either. Dealing with some of that myself.
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Old 09-04-2012, 07:31 AM   #3194
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Didn't want to start a thread, so putting this here:

Meeting with the consultant today, the one for assessing office culture and environment (later we will have those looking at our actual processes.)

I have good ideas, and I'm prepared, but I'm nervous. Also, I've got work up to my eyeballs...there just isn't enough time.

So my presentation, if you will, will involve outlining where I think MY job should be...what I was expecting when I was hired (I was grossly misled) and a suggestion of removing the position from this office to the accounting sector.

You can't tell a person to lay off on the customer service and teamwork so as to better focus on your primary responsibility, yet keep putting that person in the direct line of customer service and teamwork. I'm very good at it, but it isn't why I took this job. I wanted to do the the numbers side, like I'm supposed to. Instead, every deadline comes and I'm struggling and accounting thinks I'm incompetent (because yeah, the leaders are going to say: she's behind because we make her do a thousand other things.)

I'm going to post this as anon though I know most of you know who this is (I've done that previously, not trying to hide from those who know me here but protecting myself from those who don't and those who might google.)

So, thanks for the practice. Back to the trenches for now.
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Old 09-04-2012, 07:52 AM   #3195
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Well, ahem, Anon (giggles) ... you probably know this already, but I'd just like to say:

This is your chance to be heard. Speak loud and clear and long. Back up your facts with examples. Show them your documentation, which we know you have. Do not pull punches. Stick to your guns. Name names. Do not let them argue you out of anything. No prisoners.

This has to work. MAKE IT SO.

Grrr. Go get em, tiger.


ETA: oh, and avoid cliches like the plague.
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