@christinereed wrote:
The ultimate is when you read the guidelines from a company warning you that you must submit a perfect report, but the guidelines have grammatical and usage errors.
I have seen the actual sentence in the guidelines asking you to proof read your report for spelling errors have two letters transposed. Talk about a double standard.@christinereed wrote:
The ultimate is when you read the guidelines from a company warning you that you must submit a perfect report, but the guidelines have grammatical and usage errors.
@Summit Scheduling wrote:
I get resumes where people say they are "detailed orientated"
@BirdyC wrote:
Another pet peeve is the increasingly seen lack of differentiation between "every day" and "everyday."
Everyday, of course, being an adjective to describe something that happens every day. It's getting so that I never see "every day" written out.
@sillysister74 wrote:
I thought there was a difference.
"Every day" I go to the market.
I go to the market "everyday."
@BirdyC wrote:
@christinereed wrote:
The ultimate is when you read the guidelines from a company warning you that you must submit a perfect report, but the guidelines have grammatical and usage errors.
I think this bothers me more than any other issue I encounter in mystery shopping! I just hate it when I see assignments and guidelines that are laden with errors. I've posted here before about instructions that, in writing, say exactly the opposite of what they mean. Such as the bank-shop guidelines that state to arrive "within 30 minutes of closing." What they really mean is to NOT arrive within 30 minutes of closing.
And then there are the instructions that are so poorly written I can't figure out what the heck they mean. It's pretty ironic to be required to have great writing skills when the MSC's can't get their own materials properly written. Not to mention their (often) poorly written websites.
@Threemom wrote:
I feel so close to you all. I think I have found my people!
@touchshopper wrote:
My first shop said to be sure to order the following required items: an appetizer (optional), and an entree. Huh?? Well, for pity's sake. Is it required? Or is it optional? Talk about confusing the new kid. <insert eyeroll here>
@MA Smith wrote:
Birdy C, an apostrophe is one of the very few grammar items I know how to use properly most of the time. It is always autocorrected to 's when the word should read s'. Makes me batty. And while I'm on my little vent; I may have to dress down verbally or in written form the next time I hear or see the word 'irregardless'. What part of double negative escapes logical thought? Don't get me started with the sentence that begins with 'Me and ....'
I really enjoy your posts. Your thread suggestion is excellent.
@BirdyC wrote:
Oh, and how about stationery vs. stationary? Another head banger.
As far as punctuation goes.... I like the used-too-rarely semi-colon; it's a marvelous device when a comma or a colon is incorrect and a period is too definite.
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@CaliGirl925 wrote:
My sister calls the semi-colon the feather boa of punctuation: you have to know what you're doing or it can look silly, and you have to be judicious in not over-using it or it becomes a distraction. But used just so... fabulous!
@CaliGirl925 wrote:
@BirdyC wrote:
Oh, and how about stationery vs. stationary? Another head banger.
As far as punctuation goes.... I like the used-too-rarely semi-colon; it's a marvelous device when a comma or a colon is incorrect and a period is too definite.
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My sister calls the semi-colon the feather boa of punctuation: you have to know what you're doing or it can look silly, and you have to be judicious in not over-using it or it becomes a distraction. But used just so... fabulous!
@BirdyC wrote:
Oh, and how about stationery vs. stationary? Another head banger.
As far as punctuation goes.... I like the used-too-rarely semi-colon; it's a marvelous device when a comma or a colon is incorrect and a period is too definite. But spell check is always telling me that the semi-colon is wrong! Thank you very much, Mr. or Ms. Spell Check, but I do know what a semi-colon is and how to use it. Please take your correction and stuff it.
@christinereed wrote:
The ultimate is when you read the guidelines from a company warning you that you must submit a perfect report, but the guidelines have grammatical and usage errors.
@BirdyC wrote:
@MA Smith wrote:
Birdy C,
Oh, and "irregardless" makes me violent.
THANK YOU!, THANK YOU!, and THANK YOU! I swear to the heavens I ended up with one of the lowest grades I had in college because my professor was right behind me; I mouthed off that I did not know how anyone could get their doctorate and never found out 'irregardless' isn't a real word. She was also known for starting a sentence 'Me and...'
It's not so much I hate the word. I hate explaining the 2 negative. No one gets it. Tonight I'm a happy girl, my 94 year old dad pronounced guacamole correctly. We will now work on tortilla.
Yeah I hate the word. But I'm loving you.
Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor in the morning; the devil shudders...And yells OH #%*+! SHE'S AWAKE!
@CaliGirl925 wrote:
@BirdyC, your signature line made me think of a new thing that annoys me: when spell-check doesn't know perfectly good words and assures me that I've misspelled them. Today's example was "outlier". What? That's a great word! It's not even that unusual...