Apparently proper english is a bad thing,..
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fat_boy wrote:
consistent stupidity should be ridiculed as loudly as possible.
Although I agree, ridiculing someone "high up on the Corporate food chain" can be career limiting...
Have an intern-on-the-way-out point it out to someone higher in the pecking order :)
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emails do not require formal language. It is only with outlook convincing the masses that emails should contain formatted documents that the overwhelming belief in formal emails came to pass. My $400 an hour lawyer send me emails without proper puntuation all the time. And to be honest, I am glad I don't have to pay for the extra time it would take.
A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." -- Stephen Crane
Maybe not but in a professional setting an email should have reasonable structure and should atleast be free of spelling errors. If a person can't even send a decent email, I would certainly wonder about them in general.
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emails do not require formal language. It is only with outlook convincing the masses that emails should contain formatted documents that the overwhelming belief in formal emails came to pass. My $400 an hour lawyer send me emails without proper puntuation all the time. And to be honest, I am glad I don't have to pay for the extra time it would take.
A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." -- Stephen Crane
Judging by most of the replies I'm guessing none of those others has had the joy of an expensive lawyer before. I agree with you entirely. We've had to deal with trademark laywers, license lawyers etc etc and to be honest I don't even want them to phone me unless it's life or death. A quick phone call can easily cost a couple hundred for what could have been conveyed in a brief email badly punctuated or not. The other repliers probably don't realize how much fairly small talk goes on between a lawyer and a client, I don't mean chit chat, but stuff that absolutely isn't legalese just questions and answers about minor details. When it comes down to the important bits like contracts and trademark apps. and license agreements they always seem to come out of a template for the most part with lot's of screening by underlings who *are* paid to punctuate correctly, not the same thing at all.
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Judging by most of the replies I'm guessing none of those others has had the joy of an expensive lawyer before. I agree with you entirely. We've had to deal with trademark laywers, license lawyers etc etc and to be honest I don't even want them to phone me unless it's life or death. A quick phone call can easily cost a couple hundred for what could have been conveyed in a brief email badly punctuated or not. The other repliers probably don't realize how much fairly small talk goes on between a lawyer and a client, I don't mean chit chat, but stuff that absolutely isn't legalese just questions and answers about minor details. When it comes down to the important bits like contracts and trademark apps. and license agreements they always seem to come out of a template for the most part with lot's of screening by underlings who *are* paid to punctuate correctly, not the same thing at all.
I was starting to think I was insane :) Of course, I can be both. To be perfectly honest, me experience with my current lawyer is always buy the best one you can afford. They are worth it.
A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." -- Stephen Crane
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I was starting to think I was insane :) Of course, I can be both. To be perfectly honest, me experience with my current lawyer is always buy the best one you can afford. They are worth it.
A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." -- Stephen Crane