aw fucking christ they messed up on the grading. i didn't get 138/126. i got 138/156. so that's 88%.

:(

aw sorry to hear, that's still a really good score tho

yeah it's still way better than i expected. i was seriously thinking i might have to retake the class.

I thought it's "less music" and "fewer songs"

can you say "less songs", and if so, whyyyyyy? :cry:

Fewer/Less

Use fewer for a smaller number of individual things; use less for a smaller quantity of one thing. The less money Mr. Flanders spends, the fewer bills he gets. When you're down to one, use less: After Charlotte's wedding, Lady Lucas had one less problem. In addition, use less than (not fewer than) with percentages and fractions: Less than a third of the graduates showed up for the reunion. Use less than for quantities of time and money, too: He built the bookcase in less than two weeks and for less than thirty dollars. Finally, use less than when measuring distance (less than five miles), weight (less than 150 pounds), temperature (less than 30 degrees), speed (less than 50 miles an hour), and so on.

-Patricia O'Conner

un-Patriciaed - "less songs" is not correct here and it should say "fewer songs"? (since it is a smaller number of individual things)

In other news, I pushed my grade up to an 88%.

:bananamac

yeah i think it's fewer songs. i make the same mistake all the time. that's why i need patricia

congrats!

I passed my exam, too, which kinda blows my mind.

this Patricia O'Conner might be something I could use as well, I think, is it called "Woe is I"?

thanks and same to you.

yes that is the title. it is really good. you know how much i suck at grammar and it was so easy to read and learn from.

thanks and same to you!

yes that is the title. it is a really helpful book. explains things so simply and well, even someone as lazy and weedensed as i could understand and learn from it.

Get a load of this fatherfucker of a sentence. It's full of errors.

The Company strives to insure that employees who terminate employment are treated
consistently and fair. We request that employees give a two week notice, at a minimum. The Office manager should conduct a exit interview (see Att. 2, exit interview questionnaire (Form HR-20)). The employee should return items such as: keys, credit cards, company equipment or supplies; ect., that belongs to the company.

so far i've got

The Company strives to insure that employees who terminate employment are treated
consistently and fair. We request that employees give a two week notice, at a minimum. The Office manager should conduct a exit interview (see Att. 2, exit interview questionnaire (Form HR-20)). The employee should return items such as: keys, credit cards, company equipment or supplies; ect., that belongs to the company.

company / fairly / two-week / office / X / belong

i know the parentheses are off and also the punctuation around "supplies: etc.," i just have to find the answers in CMoS. but what the fuck is "Att. 2,"? should it be abbreviated? if not what is the word? should it be capitalized?

fuck

we only do "att" in shit that doesnt matter, short emails, memos, whatever.
for anything official I go with attachment, no abbreviation.

why is it "a exit interview" and not "an exit interview"?

also it's "thrives to ensure", I doubt they'll insure it.

oh shit you caught a bunch of other ones. thanks ptune.

so you'd spell out attachment? lowercase first letter? this is part of a notice, it is the first item of a list of rules for employess, probably out of a handbook or something.

I'd spell it out but not sure if lowercase, this shit should be consistent. say if a file exists with a header that says "Attachment 2", it would make sense to go with

but they go straight to "exit interview questionnaire" which is all lowercase, but "Form" is not.

yeah imma consult my style manual. thanks for the other ones. that's two points i can't afford to lose.

isn't standard to capitalize words in legal texts when they are defined at the start of the document ? (herein referred to as The Company)

i don't know and i don't care

i'll work on that shit tomorrow. today i'm riding the rainbow.

yea but not outside of terms and conditions, if this is a manual or guideline for employees, it wouldn't make any sense to capitalize it.

say

but

i didn't even know there was such a word as hereinafter

What about heretofore?

Hitherto?

Hereinafter, I shall strive to fart and shall refrain from thriving to fart. The hitherto failed attempts to fart were misguided.

(is that the correct usage of hitherto?)

I think so, but I'm not sure one can thrive to fart.

I'd sign off on it.

I had mixed up thrive and strive in a fuzzyesque brain failure
"as a company, we thrive to fart" - pretty sure you cannot thrive to fart, but strive to fart, yes, yes you can.


I bet this is extremely helpful for took's exam, you are welcome!

You can fart to thrive though


I mean theoretically, if thriving was something helped along with farts