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RV6Pilot

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People!

I am appalled at how many times I have seen topics that include the words "recommend me". For those people, please review your grammar 101 textbooks. Try "Please recommend a ? to me." The ? is whatever recommendation you are asking for.

While still on my soapbox, can we please stop using the following incorrect grammar: "I seen him last night" or "I seen him at school yesterday". The correct verbiage is "I SAW him" and not I seen him.

Does it matter? I have been a college instructor and hiring manager. Your level of intelligence and ability to communicate clearly are diminished in mine and similar eyes when ever we read or hear you say these words. I know of a few instances where an applicant was not hired based on the misuse of these sentences alone.

That?s all. I am now off my soapbox.
 
That's not the worst of it.
People using then and than interchangable is just laughably stupid. There are so many examples of plain stupididty, when it's not even down to laziness, just stupidity. a != e.
 
Originally posted by: RV6Pilot
People!

I am appalled at how many times I have seen topics that include the words "recommend me". For those people, please review your grammar 101 textbooks. Try "Please recommend a ? to me." The ? is whatever recommendation you are asking for.

While still on my soapbox, can we please stop using the following incorrect grammar: "I seen him last night" or "I seen him at school yesterday". The correct verbiage is "I SAW him" and not I seen him.

Does it matter? I have been a college instructor and hiring manager. Your level of intelligence and ability to communicate clearly are diminished in mine and similar eyes when ever we read or hear you say these words. I know of a few instances where an applicant was not hired based on the misuse of these sentences alone.

That?s all. I am now off my soapbox.
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I completely agree with your post. I review a lot of resumes, and it is incredible how many of them come in with spelling and grammatical errors. It is very hard for me to get past that and grant them an interview, when it is apparent they either don't know any better, or are so unmotivated that they don't care.
 
And this sentence could have been constructed more betterly:
Your level of intelligence and ability to communicate clearly are diminished in mine and similar eyes when ever we read or hear you say these words.
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Originally posted by: RV6Pilot
People!

I am appalled at how many times I have seen topics that include the words "recommend me". For those people, please review your grammar 101 textbooks. Try "Please recommend a ? to me." The ? is whatever recommendation you are asking for.

While still on my soapbox, can we please stop using the following incorrect grammar: "I seen him last night" or "I seen him at school yesterday". The correct verbiage is "I SAW him" and not I seen him.

Does it matter? I have been a college instructor and hiring manager. Your level of intelligence and ability to communicate clearly are diminished in mine and similar eyes when ever we read or hear you say these words. I know of a few instances where an applicant was not hired based on the misuse of these sentences alone.

That?s all. I am now off my soapbox.
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you might be the hiring manager, but i fire people like you. who gives a damn crap what ur spelling is like here anyways?
 
Three grammatical errors! Congrats!! Whenever, not when ever. Anywho, let me take this time to say thank you for letting us know that everyone should be just like you. Cookie??
 
Will you add the use of "I" vs. "me", please? "If you have any questions, call Mike or I" is not correct. "Leave it with Mike or I" isn't correct either. And there's the age old "there" vs. "their" vs. "they're".
 
damn its the intarweb...........who the hell gives a monkeys left testicle how people talk,type,spell. if i can understand whats being said then thats good enough
 
I taught college writing for a two year college and then I taught yearbook at a high school. The high school students really messed up my grammar.
 
Love the summary spelling error ... and although I'm a stickler for grammar, I can't say it bothers me too much around here. Although the use of your & you're, or hear & here or there & their do get tiresome.

All I can recommend is pulling the cable from your network card and calling it a day. 😛

edit: bad bolding
 
If I can read and understand it without too much effort, I don't care how proper the spelling or grammar is (at least on the internet). Proper grammar for courtesy's sake is nice, but seriously, on a forum where people post topics named "LOL @ old people!" I don't expect much. Besides, you have to make some allowances for people who aren't native speakers of English or just never learned all the complicated rules and structure of the English language.
 
Originally posted by: RV6Pilot
I think not!
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You think not what? 😕

Despite your own mistakes, I agree with you... people ought to make an effort to improve thier communication in all areas, because it does carry over into other areas. Some of the indecipherable e-mails I get at work read a lot like posts on this forum.

The excuse you usually hear is that it takes too much effort to proof your posts or they'd rather type it fast than worry about spelling and punctuation. One of the most important skills you can have in life is communication, so you'd all be doing yourself a favor to learn to communicate effectively and clearly without relying on spellcheckers.
 
if i knew that my posts on ATOT would be read by hiring managers or whatever then maybe i'll take the time to correct. otherwise, who really gives a fvck what you think or anyone else thinks about their grammar on the internet.
 
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: RV6Pilot
I think not!
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You think not what? 😕

Despite your own mistakes, I agree with you... people ought to make an effort to improve thier communication in all areas, because it does carry over into other areas. Some of the indecipherable e-mails I get at work read a lot like posts on this forum.

The excuse you usually hear is that it takes too much effort to proof your posts or they'd rather type it fast than worry about spelling and punctuation. One of the most important skills you can have in life is communication, so you'd all be doing yourself a favor to learn to communicate effectively and clearly without relying on spellcheckers.
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I do agree with this. Emails that fly around work are brutal sometimes. Then it becomes an issue. For example, I'm working with a consulting company installing a new system here at work, CyberShift, and regularly a co-worker refers to it as CyberSh!t. Not intentionally either, and it has gotten back to the company. We even had to have a meeting about it. :roll:
 
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