New York Times article<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n What’s so scary about this is that this woman teaches business writing to mid-career professionals. Not only are they mid-career professionals, they are mid-career professionals for whom English is their first language. Yes, that’s right, people who have been in the business world a minimum of five years are writing e-mails where misplaced punctuation would be a blessing over the none that is being used and verb forms routinely do not agree with the subject of the sentence. This advertisement snapped from the New York Times web site is a very good example of business “speak” that fails the good writing test.<\/p>\n
What scares me even more is what is going to happen to written language when phrases such as “wat r u wrng 2 dinr” become the common parlance of actual adults. This is why I now declare my intentions to become a Punctuation Avenger. I will make it my mission to fight the good fight for proper grammar, subject and verb agreement, and the correct use of punctuation. The permanent marker, — Sharpie brand for me — carefully constructed stick on labels in the shape of apostrophes, and a lack of tolerance for abuse of the language shall be my weapons.<\/p>\n
There will be no cape, though, for as we learned from The Incredibles<\/span>, your cape is always your downfall as a superhero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is from an actual e-mail a writing teacher received from one of her adult students: “hI KATHY i am sending u the assignmnet again,” one student wrote to her recently. “i had sent you the assignment earlier but i didnt get a respond. If u get this assgnment could u please respond . thanking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thoughts","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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