On March 22, 2016 at 15:14, 77W said...
Again, don't mean to harp on you dude, but...
When will you learn the difference between
- could of and could've
Do you write like this on your proposals and emails to your (probably educated) clients?
Even Ernie has given up! I still have hope! :)
I haven't given up. I vacillate between the more or less PC
If you learned your language primarily through speech, you won't realize that what you're trying to say is "could have," all verbs, no prepositions, because you have not seen it in print or, when you did, you didn't notice that it's not written the way that it sounds.
Of course, that's only a few steps back from the flaming
Are you writing this way because a)you never read anything so complicated that it contained that in print, or b)if you did read it, you don't notice how things are written?
Yeah, I haven't given up. It's just a question of whether I'm willing to piss somebody off by pointing out this stuff.
I do wonder, though, what prospective clients think of things written like this. Maybe they don't notice or care. Maybe they think we're all illiterate.
