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Offline Menthol

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Re: Corporate Illiteracy
« Reply #10 on: November 16, 2013, 21:07:23 PM »
No 'b' intended but equally apt. Perhaps.   ;)

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Re: Corporate Illiteracy
« Reply #11 on: December 04, 2013, 15:33:19 PM »
I am pretty certain this does come from Nationwide but it would help if someone in the bank would proof-read their correspondence or use a spell checker:

We're proud to be the first to introduce you to V.me by Visa, a brand new service giving you a secure and covenient way to pay for your online shopping.

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Re: Corporate Illiteracy
« Reply #12 on: December 04, 2013, 15:54:06 PM »
Here's one I spotted that would suit several people I know...



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Re: Corporate Illiteracy
« Reply #13 on: December 04, 2013, 18:17:29 PM »
Ho Ho. It will be difficult to top that. But I'm sure there will be a company along soon that will manage it.


P.S. Some BBC Radio 5 broadcasters have already come galloping along to supply their own example. The story was about Northerners increasing using Southern forms of pronunciation. Unfortunately they referred to this as though the word is pronounced "pronounciation" - which it isn't.
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Re: Corporate Illiteracy
« Reply #14 on: December 04, 2013, 22:09:40 PM »
Just seen the glitzy Christmas television advert for the Trafford Centre where they proudly proclaim you'll find 1000's of bargains.

Grrrrrr! It's a plural and not a possessive, you morons.
You'd think a retail giant like that would use a decent ad agency/copywriter......   >:(

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Re: Corporate Illiteracy
« Reply #15 on: December 05, 2013, 09:39:40 AM »
Whilst I admire your passion on the issue I think it would be more appropriate to accuse the Trafford centre of being outdated rather than moronic. Until relatively recently one of the many uses of the hard working, and much abused, apostrophe was to signal the plural of abbreviations. This was the case when I was educated and so I used to buy LP's in the 1960's. My then English teacher would certainly have approved the plural of 1000, as the abbreviation of thousand, being written "1000's". However, as Lynne Truss points out;"Only one significant task has been lifted from the apostrophe's workload in recent years: it no longer has to appear in the plural of abbreviations" (2009, p.46).

Being accused of being outdated is, of course, a much lesser insult; if it is an insult at all. I was using the plural abbreviation apostrophe until the current century.


Truss, L. (2009) Eats, Shoots and Leaves, London: Fourth Estate.

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Re: Corporate Illiteracy
« Reply #16 on: December 05, 2013, 12:52:56 PM »
Colwyn - I think I love you.

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Re: Corporate Illiteracy
« Reply #17 on: December 05, 2013, 13:11:31 PM »
Don't you mean you "fink's u luv 'im" ?   ;)

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Re: Corporate Illiteracy
« Reply #18 on: December 05, 2013, 14:11:04 PM »
 :-[ Menthol, you have impelled my first deliberate use of a Smiley.

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Re: Corporate Illiteracy
« Reply #19 on: December 05, 2013, 17:24:27 PM »
I never use Knorr as they have an extremely high salt content, far more than other cubes such as Oxo.  I do use stock cubes, but I often have stock frozen in small bags in the freezer.. :D  ;).
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