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  #3318432 9-Dec-2024 16:10
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Well, it looks like the author (of the letter) has had a lot of training in avoiding 'trite phrases'.

 

He (or she, of course) has avoided the 'hope you're doing well' with the wildly creative 'doing fine'. 
I'm old-school: if there's a good need for an opening platitude - just stick with a winner. 

 

But I think mating 'raising this matter' to 'bringing this concern to our attention' - gives a joyful hybrid-vigour to the imaginative off-sprung 'raising this concern to our attention'. 

 

Hey, if you can't be creative in writing pointless letters - it takes all the fun out of the day...  




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  #3318594 9-Dec-2024 22:04
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Grammar nazi in the workplace.

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3y0CD2CoCs

 

 





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  #3319255 11-Dec-2024 12:35
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A few weeks ago I heard a long interview on RNZ with a bloke who is a US expert on linguistics and how languages adapt and evolve over time.

 

He kept talking about the ‘pronounciation’ of words. Oh the irony.





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  #3323529 23-Dec-2024 10:33
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People who say ‘preformance’ when they mean ‘performance’ - there’s a lot of ‘em.





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