Hehe.... These kids are *supposed* to be intelligent. But if you like I'll change it.



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(Ptolly sighs with relief that at last he's found a forum where his humour is understood...)

I can think of a number of places where that one would've just gone whoooooooooooooooooooosh!! - straight over everyone's heads!

By all means change it Sarah but only if you want to - just be aware that you're opening yourself up to a very real danger that someone, somewhere might someday ask "Shouldn't this topic be called 'That'll Teach 'em"?

Arggh!!

Reminding me of a sign seen in a shop window earlier this morning: "cash machine available in-side"

Even louder AAAARGH!!

It's bad enough seeing "in-store" breaking out like a rash all over the UK without this... this... this greengrocer's hyphen as well!

(For the benefit of our overseas readers, I should add that here in England a "store" has always been somewhere things are stored, for example a grain store or an equipment store, whereas the place you go to buy something is a "shop". We therefore go "shopping" and not "storing". We go to "the shops" and not to "the stores". For some odd reason however this quaint Americanism appears to have been increasingly adopted over here as well, and not just adopted but positively butchered!)

although the term 'department store' has been in use over here for quite a while...

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"God rot Botchkamos Istochnik!"

I always assumed 'God' was short for Godfrey . . .

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who gets steamed up about the misuse of hyphens and the like. My current pet hate is people writing 'underway' when they mean 'under way', as in 'The project is well under way.'

I mean, come on, it's not even pronounced as a single word.

Hey, you can tell what interesting kind of stuff I work, can't you?



Jesus saves; Buddha does incremental backup.

Whereas for me ---

'The project is, well, underwear.'

I don't know if the Fforum is keeping me from blowing up or keeping me from working, but I've been working on discounting systems all afternoon except when posting here.

I've got a solution.... Maybe.



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Better?



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

Hee! Thanks Sarah!

Original approach. I'm taughting from your ideas.

Good to know that my being is impressioning on you.



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

I get really annoyed when I read 'burglerized'. Which ungrammatical idiot came up with that one ? The word is BURGLED, dammit ! The verb, 'to burgle' exists in its own right, so there is no need to invent a longer word from the noun, 'burgler'. Hurumph.

That's a whole nother thing...

It's the management buzzwords that get me - 'action' being one of my bugbears. "I'll action that later." What's wrong with 'do'?!?



I drink to drown my sorrows. Unfortunately they've learnt how to swim.

My favourite is "project". *Everything* in the world of employment is a "project". I tells ya, from bitter 9-yrs-ago experience, that in McDonaldses they call mopping the floor a "project". It's laughable - at least, it is now, with nine years of distance between it and me.



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"Whisky-wa-wa," I breathed - she was dressed as Biffo the Bear.

"Mind the Gaffe" by RL Trask is a great book for picking up errors in written English. I didn't agree with everything that he says is now acceptable, but I would recommend it to anyone who wants people to read what they have to say, not just be distracted by their mistakes.

Having a too big for his boots area manager demand 'lets be pro-active on this one team' was enough to make me imagine walking out of many meetings. Wish now I really had got up and left.

It’s a whole new paradigm.

If that's your world view.

My biggest bugbear is 'can I lend that?'

I mean it's BORROW!!!!! What's so hard?



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