Comments on: last one.

By: kat_chan

kat_chan — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 18:18:50 +0000

Nah, you're right. A college degree doesn't ensure that someone is going to use proper grammar and spellings. It's really pretty sad, but very true. Heck, my LJ is only written at a ninth-grade level, and I have an MA! So the thought that these MicroDroids would have atrocious grammar and spelling surprises me not in the least.

By: typenik

typenik — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 18:02:04 +0000

It's simply part of the inherent unfairness of life, I'm afraid. These idiots are adept enough at schmoozing the right people to think they are capable and land these jobs where they can slough off the unenviable tasks like writing the newsletter articles to their underlings yet take the credit for the article once it's published.

And there's the whole issue of people not really trying at writing these articles, because they know that nobody will read them anyways. It just doesn't matter.

It's infuriating to deal with, even moreso when you're smart enough to be cognizant of how disfunctional and wrong it is (as we both are), which is why I try not to dwell on it a whole lot. Thank goodness for outlets. ;)

By: Astrid

Astrid — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:09:24 +0000

i honestly did not know this. but then again, considering the public education system in which i was shoddily prepared -- the Texas Public School System -- this is small surprise to learn of this correction in context coming from a highly articulate, well-educated girl from Ontario.

i've learned something new today. and being a paid editor, this is an important thing to learn. all true.

~~presently~~ currently

there. better? :)

By: enigmakat

enigmakat — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:25:49 +0000

well, to be nit-picky, "presently" actually means something which is going to happen in a very short while... :-) although, admittedly, the defintion meaning something happening currently is being used more and more often (if incorrectly).

then again, this is from the person who just recently typoed 'prostrate' with 'prostate', giving something i'd written quite a different meaning... haha.

By: Astrid

Astrid — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:34:20 +0000

that's because you do spell better than most "natives" here.

By: Astrid

Astrid — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:33:27 +0000

remind me why i'm next to unemployed and these Acura MDX-driving wankers with their dividends and snazzy condos and apartments in Bellevue and Kirkland are working for Microsoft and other tech compaies on the East Side again (think Mississauga with lots of tall evergreens and slower roads)?

sheesh. talk about passive-aggressive hostility on their end, whee. or am i just projecting my own misgivings upon them?