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Any guess when posters will start to use commas or full stops so that sentences start to make sense?I am what I drink, and I'm a bitter man
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And stop annoying the Grammar Nazis round here?Originally posted by Whorty View PostAny guess when posters will start to use commas or full stops so that sentences start to make sense?
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostAnd stop annoying the Grammar Nazis round here?

i normally let things go if you can at least make out the gist of the question. If someone wants to ask a question, even if they're only trolling, then they at least need to put in enough effort so that we can understand what they are asking
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It does make me wonder, when some posters can't string a comprehensible sentence together, are they cut out to be contractors? They are probably only fit to be our butlers. Well I gave up the Butler when I went permie.....Originally posted by Whorty View Post
i normally let things go if you can at least make out the gist of the question. If someone wants to ask a question, even if they'll only trolling, then they at least need to put in enough effort so that we can understand what they are asking
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From what I observed over 25 years contracting, this was on of the defining criteria of a contractor. There were a few exceptions.Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostIt does make me wonder, when some posters can't string a comprehensible sentence together, are they cut out to be contractors?Comment
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FTFYOriginally posted by clearedforlanding View PostFrom what I observed, over 25 years' contracting, this was one of the defining criterion of a contractor. There were a few exceptions.Comment
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He may have been pulling your leg or he may have started early on his home brewOriginally posted by ladymuck View PostFTFY
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Both very possible, granted. I just felt like being a pedant.Originally posted by MrMarkyMark View PostHe may have been pulling your leg or he may have started early on his home brew
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Or he may be using my favourite trick of ensuring there is a grammatical error in a statement. The error is picked up on and then allows you to imply for ever more that the person who complained about the error accepted the rest of the statement.Originally posted by MrMarkyMark View PostHe may have been pulling your leg or he may have started early on his home brew
I think most posters are fully aware of that trick but it's a great one for forcing never ending email discussions to come to an end.merely at clientco for the entertainmentComment
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I used to, in the right circumstances, craft the sort of e mails that publicly destroyed combatants in a very polite way.Originally posted by eek View PostOr he may be using my favourite trick of ensuring there is a grammatical error in a statement. The error is picked up on and then allows you to imply for ever more that the person who complained about the error accepted the rest of the statement.
I think most posters are fully aware of that trick but it's a great one for forcing never ending email discussions to come to an end.
That usually ended the e mail chain, this was then followed by an instant message desperately asking, privately, how they could help
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