12-06-2015, 02:22 PM -
(12-06-2015, 11:26 AM)Frank Underwood Wrote: They might not draw your attention to it, but they will almost certainly judge you on the fact that you are meant to be a 'professional' but don't have the basic grammar skills required to move from Primary School to High School
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This is the only reason I pulled up Prancer. He's apparently educated to the level that he's in control of other people's finances. It's shocking to me that he doesn't understand the basics of English. Everyone makes typos, everyone has wee brain farts. Prancer's consistent misuse of their/they're/there and would of/have goes beyond mistakes, and reaches non-comprehension.
(12-06-2015, 12:24 PM)Makween Wrote: I'd guess that most of us use a different style on here to the one we would in a formal document. Â I know that I do. Â That's not what's under discussion here, though: what's under discussion is your lack of mastery of the basics of grammar.
Am I bothered by that? Â No. Â Would I have picked you up on it myself? Â Again, no. Â It was Roger that did that, and I don't think that he's an English teacher. Â Don't pretend that it's about not using a formal style in forum posts or not putting 'time and skill' into them, though.
This. Not an English teacher. Don't care about writing style or informality. Do care when a professional doesn't know that when he says "could've" out loud, he's not saying "could of" he's contracting "could have". Like, he literally doesn't understand the words he is using.