don't tell Mac

Have you ever received an email from someone that you previously respected professionally, only to find it riddled with punctuation errors repeated so consistently as to confirm that they are not typos, but rather that this person has no friggin' clue how to use apostrophes properly? Did it make you want to scream? Or perhaps surreptitiously send them a copy of Grammar for Dummies? This email was not just sent to me to tell me to quit blogging and git back to work, no sir, this was an email that went out to the Regional VP, Regional VP of Sales, and a State Manager, from a management level person who should know better.

Here are some of the more blatant errors: "[My department] work's closely with..." repeated twice, and "The developer's are working hard...", in fact almost every time this person pluralizes something it has a wayward apostrophe. I am truly shocked.

Comments

[mac]

I am constantly amazed at the sheer stupidity of people in high places. Grrr.

[Karen]

Ugh! Find a communal computer, correct all the errors, and send it back! Tee-hee!