February 8, 2008

• as i have now read three posts besides mine lamenting the word choice & grammatical usage woes in recent days, i am listing my most recent cringeworthy hearings/readings:

  1. valentimes.  yes, i realize i already said it, but it bears repeating due to its horror.

  2. paradine shift.  paradine?  is that like when you don't actually dine, but just eat near - so you para-dine?

  3. tinter tantrum.  why is it when people say catch phrases that they just stop hearing them as phrases made up of ACTUAL words and just what they like to hear?  one only knows.

  4. 'i train new higher's'.  this was read on a resume that i got.  are you sure you don't mean new hires?  or is it that you are training new members of the higher family's children/pets/whathaveyou and you've just forgotten to end your sentence? 

  5. also in a resume:

  previous employment: joe's warehouse
  hours: full-time
  job title: manager
  supervisor: huge
  duties: something that i didn't read because i couldn't get past the fact that for a supervisor's name, this applicant put the word "huge".

  6. in a client file at work:

  name: barbara smith
  occupation: homaker

  do we mean homemaker, or are we making a judgement call on the character of mrs. smith's children?

  7. barnes and nobleses. 

  sigh.  ugh.

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  i digress.  but only for awhile.

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