Many people were kind enough to send me examples of errors they or others had made in business writing. Here are a few examples. Unconscious Slips Embarrassment awaits those who blithely type the contents of their unconscious mind – and don’t catch themselves before they hit “send.” Someone wrote: I recently started an email by […]
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What a difference a prefix makes. In the highly publicized divorce case of Frank and Jamie McCourt, owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers, a high-priced attorney has admitted to changing the word “exclusive” to “inclusive” in a post nuptial agreement about the division of the couple’s assets. Did the lawyer really “miswrite”, as he stated
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My infant grandson is visiting; he has reminded me of a basic truth about business writing. He just started eating solids, so we’ve been spooning baby food into a hungry little mouth. Imagine yourself feeding sweet potatoes to a babe. You put the food on the spoon, put the spoon in the mouth and, like
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How is writing like swimming? I swim a mile several times a week, and have been doing so for years. That’s 72 laps. Every time I swim, I go about four laps and then a little voice in my head says, “I’m a little tired… maybe I shouldn’t do the full distance today… 72 laps!
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