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To: jbe who wrote (1224)	5/5/1998 2:40:00 PM
From: Achilles	Read Replies (1) of 4710

I have to admit that I'm frustrated, not merely with web-English (which used to be called pidgin-English, before the pigeons began to take offense), but the ungrammatical sh*t that businesses are willing to send me: flyers and questionnaires written by semi-literate marketing majors. I've decided that I'm not going to take it any more. Last week I corrected the grammar on a questionnaire sent to me by my brokerage and sent it back to them with a blistering letter: poor grammar is unprofessional and reflects badly on their institution. Yesterday I phoned the number on the bottom of a flyer and lectured them on punctuation. (I was appalled to learn that the offending flyer was produced by a Ph.D. and an M.A.: o tempora! o mores!) If businesses start getting much of this, they will begin to demand grammatical competence of business schools or at least hire a few English majors to proofread their produce. So, gentle-people, to arms! Let us encourage professional people to present themselves professionally, or at least be embarrassed when they don't.

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