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Originally posted by northernladuk View PostAnd zippy, why quote the entire (and long) post right underneath the original post so making us scroll to read the next reply????
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Originally posted by northernladuk View PostAnd zippy, why quote the entire (and long) post right underneath the original post so making us scroll to read the next reply????
Believe me I find the lazy misuse of similar sounding words a hell of a lot more annoying than someone quoting an entire post annoys you. I have to work out the meaning of what you post from 1st principles when your doesn't make sense in context, same is true for misuse of to/too and there/their/they're.Comment
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Originally posted by MaryPoppins View PostI do that all the time...!
Anyways, putting yourself forward at the highest rate isnt always the best move imo. Its a bit like when you get quotes for work at your home. The highest quote isnt an indication of the best workmanship. And, you tend to dismiss the highest and lowest quotes anyway.
So, especially in a tight market, it makes sense to go in at a slightly lower rate.I couldn't give two fornicators! Yes, really!Comment
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Originally posted by BolshieBastard View PostHe's a nob. northernlad sees himself as some form of forum ploice demanding people dont quote the whole post for some reason. Probably because he's too lazy.police
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Originally posted by TykeMerc View PostProbably for the same reason you write YOUR instead of YOU'RE and TO instead of TOO, it's called being lazy
Practically perfect in every way....there's a time and (more importantly) a place for malarkey.
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Originally posted by MaryPoppins View PostTad mean I think.
It's a form of dyslexia and it means that I have to work out the meaning longhand rather than being able to fast skim read when the context is knackered. It sends me up the wall.
On your original point I agree completely it's damn irritating to get the "you're overqualified" line, it's all but impossible to get through to an agent that overqualified or not you want the role and are happy to do it for the contract duration as advertised.Comment
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Originally posted by TykeMerc View PostPossibly, but I find it a nightmare to read a sentence that has a word with a different meaning, but similar sound as it throws the context to hell.
It's a form of dyslexia and it means that I have to work out the meaning longhand rather than being able to fast skim read when the context is knackered. It sends me up the wall.
On your original point I agree completely it's damn irritating to get the "you're overqualified" line, it's all but impossible to get through to an agent that overqualified or not you want the role and are happy to do it for the contract duration as advertised.
Precisely, gggrrr! I resent having to justify myself, yes, that's the nail on the head..!Practically perfect in every way....there's a time and (more importantly) a place for malarkey.
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Originally posted by MaryPoppins View PostPerhaps NL finds it as difficult to get grammar spot on...
To put that comment in context I deal with a lot of people who have English as their second or third language and while their grammar or spelling is often off the mistakes I've mentioned are rare as they know they're different words.
Don't get me started on the txtspk substitutions... U, and UR are basically unreadable to me (as they have their own real meanings) and I struggle to
work out what the hell they're supposed to mean in context. Sends me bananas, I've spent years in vain trying to retrain myself to understand the lazy writing that sprang to the fore a decade or so back, it sends me nuts.Comment
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